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    11 months ago

    The mode human body contains enough bones to make an entire skeleton. The average human body doesn’t have enough.

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      The word average can technically refer to arithmetic mean, median, mode, or range. That’s why you were probably taught them at the same time. That’s also why tests like the ACT tend to have a * at the top that says something along the lines of “Unless otherwise stated, the word average indicates arithmetic mean.”

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          Because mean is the most common form of average. But, for example, when referring to salaries, the words median and average are often used interchangeably.