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The mean of a set of data is all the values in that data added together and then divided by the number of values. For instance, if you had the data set 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, you would add them all up to get 22, and then divide by 5 to get 4.4 which is the mean. The median is the middle value of all data values. In the above data set, that is 4, and so 4 would be the median. Mean and median are alike in that they both attempt to find the "middle" of the data, and are both considered averages.

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