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What's Your Mean?

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Although numerical integration is not exact, you might like to try to do a numerical integration which you KNOW is smaller than the mean and then do another integration which you can be very sure gives a value which is larger than the mean.

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