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The average of the three numbers, 2, 3, and x-1 is n. What is the value of x in terms of n?

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the average of a dataset is simply the "arithmetic mean", and is just the sum of the data items divided by how many items are there.

well, in this case we have 3 items, 2, 3 and (x-1), so, to get their average, we sum them up and divide them by 3, but we already know that's n, well


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