The Mean Is an Appropriate Measure of Central Tendency for

question 62

Multiple Choice

The mean is an appropriate measure of central tendency for

• A) data that are normally distributed.
• B) data that are on an interval or ratio scale.
• C) data in which the mean, median, and mode are equal.
• D) all of these.

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