Differentiate bw mean and average.. Give examples in support of your answer...
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The term "average" usually encompasses several ways to measure what value best represents a sample. ... A statistician or mathematician would use the terms mean and average to refer to the sum of all values divided by the total number of values, what you have called the average.
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Mean, median, and mode are three kinds of "averages". There are many "averages" in statistics, but these are, I think, the three most common, and are certainly the three you are most likely to encounter in your pre-statistics courses, if the topic comes up at all.
The "mean" is the "average" you're used to, where you add up all the numbers and then divide by the number of numbers. The "median" is the "middle" value in the list of numbers. To find the median, your numbers have to be listed in numerical order from smallest to largest, so you may have to rewrite your list before you can find the median. The "mode" is the value that occurs most often. If no number in the list is repeated, then there is no mode for the list.