The Following List Shows the Age at Appointment of U

question 42

Multiple Choice

The following list shows the age at appointment of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justices appointed since 1900. Use the data to answer the question.

-The U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice data was used to create the following output in an Excel spreadsheet. Choose the statement that best summarizes the variability of the dataset.

• A)The age of most of the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice's since 1900 are within 5.6 years of the mean age.
• B)The age of most of the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice's since 1900 are within 31.3 years of the mean age.
• C)The ages of most of the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justices are between 50 and 68 years.
• D)None of these.

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