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The monthly rents for five apartments advertised in a newspaper were $670, $670, $790, $1550, and $810. Use the mean, median, mode, and range of the rents to answer the following question: Which value gives the average rent?

The average rent is the range, $900.

The average rent is the mode, $670.

The average rent is the mean, $898.

The average rent is the median, $790.

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Sentences one, two, and four are incorrect because the mean is the average of a set of numbers, leaving Sentence three as the correct answer.
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