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Question 1191248: What is the arithmetic mean (ordinary average) of the 73 successive positive integers, starting with 5? Answer by ikleyn(52790) (Show Source):
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What is the arithmetic mean (ordinary average) of the 73 successive positive integers, starting with 5?
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The first number is 5; the 73-th number in the sequence is 5 + 73 - 1 = 77.
The arithmetic mean of the first and the 73-th number is = = 41.
The arithmetic mean of all 73 successive positive integers starting from 5 is the same number of 41. ANSWER
