A Teacher Notices That on the Last Science Test, Some

question 122

Multiple Choice

A teacher notices that on the last science test, some students did very well, while other students performed poorly or had grades in the middle of the pack. If she wanted to measure how "spread out" all of the scores were, which descriptive statistic could she use?

• A) Median
• B) Mode
• C) Standard deviation
• D) Mean

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