document.write( "Question 861799: The data gives the responses of 15 students who were asked how many text messages they send in a day.\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "(2, 50, 50, 51, 51, 52, 53, 54, 54, 55, 55, 55, 56, 56, 57}\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "What is the best measure of the central tendency of the data?
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The data gives the responses of 15 students who were asked how many text messages they send in a day.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "Ans: Propably the median (54).
\n" ); document.write( "The mean would be skewed downward because of the \"2\" in the data.
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\n" ); document.write( "Stan H. \n" ); document.write( "
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