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The phrase "averaged the first" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be used in contexts where you are discussing statistical calculations or comparisons, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "In my analysis, I averaged the first set of data points to determine the baseline."
Alternatives: "calculated the average of the first" or "computed the mean of the first".
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I was just an adventure journalist but got hooked on the idea as a youngster in 1977 when Tom Sneva averaged the first 200-mph lap at Indianapolis, a barrier once thought impenetrable.
Based on the results from this analysis, we averaged the first two canonical scores for each genotype from each population.
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We took three measurements, discarded the first and averaged the second and third for further analysis.
For systolic blood pressure, we averaged the second and third measurements of systolic blood pressure.
If that were true, averaging the first and second guesses should decrease the accuracy.
Again, let's average the first five years of the satellite record, from 1979 to 1983.
First trimester summaries were calculated by averaging the first four monthly concentration averages, if none were missing.
They average the second-most assists and the most rebounds, and their home record is 17-3.
This means that the median of six values is taken as the third value (from a sorted list) rather than averaging the third and fourth values.
Going into the game, he was averaging the third-most pitches per inning, 17.9, among major league starters.
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