Which measure of central tendency would best describe the data: 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, and 49? Why? Why wouldn't the other three tendencies not be good describers of the data?

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anonymous · Answer

What are you're answer choices cause I do not really understand the question

anonymous · Answer

The answer choices are the central tendencies, which are: range, mean, mode, median.

amistre64 · Answer

range is not a measure of central tendecy;  midrange is

anonymous · Answer

@amistre64 Thank you for pointing that out. Was about to say that :-]

anonymous · Answer

In my question, it says that those four are the central tendencies, and I don't have a clue what's going on.

amistre64 · Answer

you might want to go over the definitions for the options then

amistre64 · Answer

also, review what an outlier is

anonymous · Answer

I know what an outlier is and what mean, median, mode, and range are.

amistre64 · Answer

then you should know whats going on in the question :)

amistre64 · Answer

the outlier distorts the mean, there is no mode to speak of, and range isnot a measure of central tendency

anonymous · Answer

I don't get what "best describes the data" mean. That's what I need help in.

amistre64 · Answer

if you have 5 teenagers and 1 old guy ... what is the best discription of the average age of the group?

anonymous · Answer

The teenagers ages, because there is more of the teenagers, than the one old guy. So this would be.. the median?

amistre64 · Answer

correct

anonymous · Answer

Thank you so much! c:

amistre64 · Answer

good luck ;)