Adding together the terms and dividing them by the number of terms gives the arithmetic mean.
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the sum of the elements divided by the number of elements is the average
The "average" of a bunch of numbers means (the sum of all the numbers in the bunch) divided by (the number of numbers in the bunch).
In any division sum, the number to be divided - the first number in a sum such as 6/2 = 3 is called the dividend. The second number is the divisor, and the answer is the quotient.
The mean
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