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All three are types of averages. The mean is what the typical person means when he says "average": add up all the values and divide by the number of values. The median is the middle value: if you arrange the numbers from low to high and then take the one exactly in the middle of the sequence (or the mean of the two middle values, if there are an even number), that's the median. The mode is the value that occurs most often.

In what statisticians call a normal distribution, the mean, median, and mode will all be the same or at least very close. However, many sets of data are not "normal distributions", and in those the three values can be very different. For example, consider the set 5,5,5,20,20,55,100. The mode is 5, the median is 20, and the mean is 30.

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The mean is its sum divided by how many there are, the median is the middle value in ascending order and the mode is what occurs most often.

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