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#1 2014-12-27 04:46:59
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Average
Hi I'm studying right now and I just wanted to know if finding the average is the same as finding the mean? Thanks ?✏️???
#2 2014-12-27 05:01:56
- David
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Re: Average
Yes. It is the same.
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#3 2015-01-09 02:27:44
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Re: Average
Hello Hi I'm stuck
Welcome to the forum.
Yes, but some people use the word average for any central representative of a set of data:
http://www.mathwords.com/a/average.htm
In the UK, average could also be the mode or the median.
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#4 2015-01-09 02:32:10
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Re: Average
Thanks for the report Chris2
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