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You're an Average One, Mr. Grinch

November 6, 2019Original blog post

A statistics pun on the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch": since "mean" is a kind of average, the Grinch is an average one.

Transcript

[The Grinch, hands on hips] "you're an AVERAGE one, Mr. Grinch"

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Free for classrooms, worksheets, slides and other non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0, with credit to Ben Orlin.

Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-11-06-you-re-an-average-one-mr-grinch/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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