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:

Public Funds

Money collected by the government from taxes or other sources intended for public expenditure on services and infrastructure.

Unconstitutional

Referring to actions, laws, or policies that are deemed to violate the principles or provisions of a constitution, particularly that of a nation or state.

Bowers V. Hardwick

A controversial 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of a law criminalizing consensual homosexual acts, later overturned by Lawrence v. Texas in 2003.

Consensual Homosexual Activity

Sexual relations between same-sex partners that are agreed upon without coercion.