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7-42.
Additional Challenge: Use the numbers
List five numbers with a mean of
. If the mean is
, and there are numbers, what number do you want the sum of all of your numbers to be? List five numbers with a mean of
and a median of . Make sure that the desired median is the middle number when your numbers are in order.
If a list of five numbers has a mean of
, what is the largest median that this set of data can have? ______, ______, ______, ______, ______
If the sum of the numbers must be
, how can you arrange numbers so that the middle number is as high as possible?
Could the middle number be? Why or why not?