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If a is the mean and b is the median of nine consecutive integers, what is the value of |a-b|?
The correct answer is: 0
let the numbers be
x-4, x-3, x-2, x-1, x, x+1, x+2, x+3, x+4
Mean is 
Median is x
|x – x| = 0
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