Question

The following is a list of the number of magazine subscriptions that various students sold for the class field trip fundraiser: 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13. Which of the following would NOT be a good measure of central tendency for these numbers?
Answer

(A) median

(B) mode

(B) average

(D) mean

Answer 1

that would be the mode - do you see why?

Answer 2

Thank you can you explain why?

Answer 3

the mode is the number that occurs most - in this case it is 1.

as you can see this isn't a 'central' number. there are a lot of numbers higher than 1 and only 2 0's below.

Answer 4

I understand Now Thank You

Answer 5

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