The mean of $10, 4, 1, x,$ and $1$ is equal to the median. What is the smallest possible value of $x$?
The smallest possible value of x is -7.
Median = (4+1)/2 = 2.5
average (x + 1 + 4 + 10)/4 = 2.5
x + 15 = 10
x = - 5
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