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Arithmetic Mean

August 6, 2024Original blog post

The 'Arithmetic Mean', defined and illustrated.

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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/2024-08-06-which-mean-do-you-mean--arithmetic-mean/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Arithmetic Mean: sum of data, divided by n. [One person with all the cookies] "Worry not, friends! We have, on average, two cookies each."

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