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Recent Examples of arithmetic meanHow To Apply The Metrics Each axis is scored on a 1-10 scale, and the composite score is the arithmetic mean.—Ranjeet Mudholkar, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025 To find the median of an even number of values, take the middle two and then find the pair's arithmetic mean of those two.—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
Reporting 61 events recorded at the 25+ report threshold versus a 2021-2025 average of roughly 43 – up about 42%, according to the American Meteor Society.
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Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
In recent weeks, Iran has launched an average of about 80 drone attacks a day at its neighbors.