[verma7]

How would you get the distribution from the sum of numbers individually?

[chrisdirkis]

I believe the parent meant breaking it down as "if you earn $100k, add 10 slips that each have $10k on them". The number of slips will be more than the number of people in the room, but that's fine. It's less practical than the "seed + pass round" method that someone else recommended imo (due to handwriting notability), but still works in a more technical sense.

[jhanschoo]

You're right, you can't, I was looking at the problem posed by grandparent comment of getting only the average.

[jessaustin]

You don't count the slips of paper in the hat. Instead you count the number of people who put in slips of paper.

[nitrogen]

That will give an average, but it won't give the distribution (min/max/etc)