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Invent a five value data set for which the mean is 6 and the mode is not 6

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ur gonna have 5 numbers where the mean is 6......meaning all ur 5 numbers are gonna have to add up to 30.

but u dont want the mode to be 6....so no repeating 6's..

(5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 10) / 5 = 30/5 = 6....so with this data, the mean is 6 and the mode is 5

ur data set is : { 5,5,5,5,10 }
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