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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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Are the mean median and mode always numbers from a list of data?
the median and mode are but the mean is not
What is the mode median mean and range of 65?
The mode, median, and range of a single data point such as 65 are all the data point itself, 65 in this instance.
Why it is useful to fiNd the meaN mediaN aNd mode of a set of data?
when there are extreme values in the data
Measures of central tendency show how data are?
Mean, Median and Mode.
Can a data set have the same mean median mode and range?
Yea
