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document.write( "The mean is just the ordinary average that you learned \r\n" );
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document.write( "To find the median and the mode list the numbers in order\r\n" );
document.write( "from smallest to largest:\r\n" );
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document.write( "3 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 9 \r\n" );
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document.write( "There are 15 numbers. 15 is an odd number of numbers, so the \r\n" );
document.write( "median is the one that is right in the middle of the list. \r\n" );
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document.write( "Remember it by: \"The median of a highway is in the middle.\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "3 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 9\r\n" );
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document.write( "The number right in the middle is 6.\r\n" );
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document.write( "(If there had been an even number of numbers, you would have \r\n" );
document.write( "had to average the middle two)\r\n" );
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document.write( "The mode is the number that occurs more than any other, if \r\n" );
document.write( "there is one, that is, the number that occurs most.\r\n" );
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document.write( "(Remember it by: the first two letters of \"mode\" are \"mo\" and\r\n" );
document.write( "the first two letters of \"more\" and \"most\" is also \"mo\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "3 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 9\r\n" );
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document.write( "As you can see there are more 5's than anything else, so 5\r\n" );
document.write( "is the mode.\r\n" );
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