Data on the Amount of Money Made in a Year

question 7

Multiple Choice

Data on the amount of money made in a year by 1,000 families in a small town were collected. You want to know the difference in the amount of money made in that year by the middle 50% of the 1,000 families. Which of the following would you compute?

• A) Arithmetic mean
• B) Median
• C) Interquartile range
• D) Coefficient of correlation

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Definitions:

Microsociologists

Scholars who focus on the study of social interactions and processes at the individual or small-group level, rather than societal structures.

Foundations

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