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Quick question - For statement 2, how do we know 1 & 19 are removed? We can remove 3 & 17 (sum of 20) as well??

Good catch ! Yes 17 and 3 can also be pair that could have been removed.

However the point to note here is whatever the pair might be, it will always be equidistant from the mean. This is required to keep the mean at 10.

The difference between Statement 1 and Statement 2 is that, statement 1 provides information with respect to median. Hence we are free to remove any term as long as we are removing one term is less and the other term is greater than the median. However, in the second statement imposes an additional constraint of distance. Hence, now we can no longer remove any term. We can only remove term which are equidistant on either side from mean.
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