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Data and Displays · Challenge problem

An analyst has a histogram of 200200 whole-number values with bins 00–99, 1010–1919, …\ldots, 9090–9999 and estimates the mean using the bin midpoints 4.5,14.5,…,94.54.5, 14.5, \ldots, 94.5. Whatever the counts are, what is the largest possible difference between this estimate and the true mean?