The mean is the average. The median is the middle. The mode is the most common.
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a single number, -3, is its own mean, median, and mode.
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The mean, median, and mode of a single number is that same number. Note that terms such as "mean" and "median" are usually only interesting for a larger set of numbers.
Mean is the average: Add all the numbers in a set and divide by the number of numbers. Median is if you wrote the numbers from largest to smallest, it would be the middle number. Mode is the Most common number.
In a symmetric distribution, the mean and the median are the same. Otherwise there is no relation. In symmetric distributions with only one mode, the mode will coincide with the mean and median, but otherwise there is no relation.