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Center and Spread · Challenge problem

For the data 3,8,8,12,19,303, 8, 8, 12, 19, 30, let D(c)D(c) be the mean distance from the number cc to the six values, D(c)=16∑∣xi−c∣D(c) = \dfrac{1}{6}\sum |x_i - c|. What is the smallest possible value of D(c)D(c)?