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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
With the amount of stoppage time match officials are adding on, Premier League matches this season have lasted an average of 100 minutes and 35 seconds.
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Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Elk Grove Unified also saw a rate of improvement higher than the state average, which administrators owed in part to data-sharing.
What was once perceived as a temporary fix may, however, prove to be the golden mean.
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Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
21 June 2025
Embodied is working to achieve a kind of anthropomorphic golden mean with its bot: not so mechanical that children lose interest but not realistic enough for kids to humanize it.
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