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+### average
+
+:information_source: Already implemented via `statistics.mean`. `statistics.mean` takes an array as an argument whereas this function takes variadic arguments.
+
+Returns the average of two or more numbers.
+
+Takes the sum of all the `args` and divides it by `len(args)`. The secind argument `0.0` in sum is to handle floating point division in `python2`.
+
+```python 
+
+
+def average(*args):
+    return sum(args, 0.0) / len(args)
+
+```
+
+``` python
+average(*[1, 2, 3]) # 2.0
+average(1, 2, 3) # 2.0
+```