Question 195615
Someone, please help! I am about to pull my hair out. 

Find the mean, median, and mode for the following set of data which shows the number of pages per article in a random sample of magazine articles. 
6 7 5 4 7 5 5 7
8 5 3 6 8 9 5 
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The mean is just the ordinary average that you learned 
back in elementary or middle school.

{{{MEAN = (6+7+5+4+7+5+5+7+8+5+3+6+8+9+5)/15=90/15=6}}}

To find the median and the mode list the numbers in order
from smallest to largest:

3 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 9 

There are 15 numbers. 15 is an odd number of numbers, so the 
median is the one that is right in the middle of the list. 

Remember it by: "The median of a highway is in the middle."

3 4 5 5 5 5 5 <font color = "red">6</font> 6 7 7 7 8 8 9

The number right in the middle is 6.

<i>(If there had been an even number of numbers, you would have 
had to average the middle two)</i>

The mode is the number that occurs more than any other, if 
there is one, that is, the number that occurs most.

(Remember it by: the first two letters of "mode" are "mo" and
the first two letters of "more" and "most" is also "mo".

3 4 <font color = "red">5 5 5 5 5</font> 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 9

As you can see there are more 5's than anything else, so 5
is the mode.

Edwin</pre>