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Can you find sets of positive integers that satisfy the following?
1. Three numbers with mean 3 and mode 2
2. Three numbers with mean 7 and mode 10
3. Three numbers with mean 8, median 10 and range 8
4. Four numbers with mean 7.5, mode 6 and median 7
5. Four numbers with mean 6, median 6.5 and range 11
6. Five numbers with mean 4, mode 3 and range 9
7. Five numbers with mean 4, mode 2 and range 6 (two possible solutions)
8. Five numbers with mean 7, mode 7 and range 10 (three possible solutions)
Extension
Can you find a set of four numbers with mean 4, mode 1, median 2 and range 10?
How about a set of five numbers?
Or six numbers?
Or...
Or 100 numbers?
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With thanks to Don Steward, whose ideas formed the basis of this problem.
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