A methods and measurements analyst for Digital Devices needs to develop a time standard for the task of assembling a computer mouse. In a preliminary study, she observed one of her workers perform this task six times with the following results:

$\backslash$table$[[$Observation$,1,2,3,4,5,6],[$Time $($seconds$),46,38,40,34,42,40]]$

What is the observed time for this task?

$48$ seconds

$40$ seconds

$240$ seconds

$34$ seconds

$46$ seconds