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'cause they were average, not fantastic! It is sometimes stated that the 'mean' means average. This is incorrect if "mean" is taken in the specific sense of "arithmetic mean" as there are different types of averages: the mean, median, and mode. For instance, average house prices almost always use the median value for the average.
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What do you call the sum of a group of numbers divided by the number of numbers in the group called?
It is called the 'mean average'
What is the total of numbers divided by how many there are?
It is called the mean average.
The average of a set of numbers is called the?
It is most likely to be the arithmetic mean.
The number found by dividing the sum of the set of numbers by the number of addends?
This is called the average, or the arithmetic mean, of the numbers.
What does mean in math means?
In every day language ; mean' can be said as 'Average'.
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