Pressure in a fluid

Practice Question Solving
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Hi everyone,

  1. In a static fluid the pressure increases at the bottom because it withstands the atmospheric pressure as well as the pressure of the fluid above it

  2. Yet it is said in my physics book that “at any point in a static fluid, the pressure on all sides must be equal”

Source: https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Book%3A_University_Physics_(OpenStax)/Book%3A_University_Physics_I__Mechanics_Sound_Oscillations_and_Waves_(OpenStax)/14%3A_Fluid_Mechanics/14.03%3A_Fluids_Density_and_Pressure_(Part_2)#:~:text=The%20pressure%20at%20the%20bottom,the%20acceleration%20due%20to%20gravity.

How can both these statements be true? is it because statement 2) is referring to equal average pressure?

Thanks!