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Basic Statistics (Posted on 2007-03-26)

A set of seven positive integer numbers has the following properties:

The mode of the set is 1.

The mean of the set is 4.

The median of the set is 5, and occurs just once.

The range of the set is 6.

What are the numbers?

See The Solution Submitted by Brian Smith

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re: Explanation to Puzzle Answer

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(In reply to Explanation to Puzzle Answer by K Sengupta)

This is also a valid answer:

1, 1, 2, 5, 6, 6, 7 where the mean is 4, the median is 5, and the range is 6. In this case, there are two modes: 1 and 6.

This is a bimodal set."

Posted by K Sengupta on 2024-03-08 11:10:04

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