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Understand measures of central tendency, including how to calculate the mean, median, and mode, with definitions for each: mode as the most frequent value, median as the middle value when arranged in order, and mean as the total of all values divided by the number of values.

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Understand measures of central tendency, including how to calculate the mean, median, and mode, with definitions for each: mode as the most frequent value, median as the middle value when arranged in order, and mean as the total of all values divided by the number of values

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You need to be able to understand measures of central tendency, including how to calculate the mean, median, and mode, with definitions for each: mode as the most frequent value, median as the middle value when arranged in order, and mean as the total of all values divided by the number of values.
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