The winner will be the contestant that is closest on average to the actual number of hospital days for each patient.
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The prevailing wage is not the actual average wage for a given area but a calculation made by the Department of Labor.
The volunteers were then told the actual average probability of the event.
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The new corporate-average fuel economy (CAFE) figure, originally scheduled for 2020 but brought four years forward by the Obama administration, amounts to a 34% increase over today's actual average of 26.4mpg.
On a weekly basis, Apple's actual compound average gain has been 0.74% still enough to multiply an initial investment 45-fold.
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By comparing average prices instead of actual prices, the standard deviations it uses as benchmarks are significantly tighter because the range of prices, which produce the standard deviations, has been squeezed tighter by averaging them first.
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The really seriously injured recover, on average, just 9% of their actual losses.
The average book value of the life firms' shares is now equivalent to 14, 900 on the Nikkei 225 stockmarket average, compared with the Nikkei's actual level of around 20, 600.
What the actual impact of the sequester on the average American has been hotly debated.
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On average, fees quoted by British funds understate total actual costs by 15%, says Fitzrovia International, a small London-based fund-research outfit that has just compiled the first-ever analysis of such costs in Britain.
Actual times and their relative improvements vary by model, with an average boot and shutdown improvement of up to 57%.
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The actual number of putts taken by a player is subtracted from this average value to determine strokes gained or lost.
The period between Apple product unveilings and their actual availability, anywhere from nine to 66 days, has seen an average gain in the stock of 4.53%.
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Finally, they evaluate how many students actually finish their degrees in four years, considering both the actual graduation rate (8.75%) and the gap between the average rate and a predicted rate, based on characteristics of the school (8.75%).
They studied average returns of investors in 401(k) plans who stayed fully invested and compared their actual returns to investors who sold and moved to cash during the market downturn in 2008-2009.
As these numbers are at, or even above the U.S. average, it is the movement of REO saturation that is extremely important, more so than the actual figure.
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Since almost all lesser-skilled workers entering the workforce in any given year are paid wages lower than the average, the measured statistic, "average hourly wage, " remained stagnant over the years even while the real wages of actual flesh-and-blood workers employed in any given year rose over time as they gained more experience and skills.
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The bottom line here is that our standard of living is sinking like a stone and the income gap from top to bottom is at a all time high and the percentage of rate vs. actual dollars in revenues paid is far in favor of the higher income brackets than the average wage earner.
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Further, weather modeling is much too imprecise and actual temperature measurement is much too sparse to have anything like an accurate measurement of global temperature average.
We are always speaking in relative terms, and cordoning off the entire population of America and lumping us on one side and then taking the average wealth of everybody else and lumping that on the other is a fine way to blur true distinctions and actual class issues.
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