In a biology class, you are growing bean plants. The heights of 8 of the plants in inches are given 12, 14, 9, 10, 8, 12, 16, 7. What is the mean, median and mode of this set of data?

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mean: add 'em up and divide by 8
median: sort them low-to-high, then take the average of the 4th and 5th values
mode: the value which occurs most often

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In a biology class, you are growing bean plants. The heights of 8 of the plants in inches are given below. What is the mean, median and mode of this set of data?

12, 14, 9, 10, 8, 12, 16, 7