Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers, 6th Edition

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ISBN 10: 1118539710
ISBN 13: 978-1-11853-971-2

Chapter 6 - Section 6-1 - Numerical Summaries of Data - Exercises - Page 205: 6-2

Answer

See below.

Work Step by Step

Not always, e.g. if the data set is $\{1,999,1000,1500\}$ then their mean is $875$, but only one of the elements is below the mean.
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