The Median Is

question 81

Multiple Choice

The median is

• A) the score that falls exactly in the center of a distribution.
• B) the arithmetic average of the scores in a distribution.
• C) the score that occurs most frequently in a distribution.
• D) the difference between the largest and the smallest scores in a distribution.

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Definitions:

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