Liang Wants to Use a Measure of Central Tendency to Summarize

question 221

Multiple Choice

Liang wants to use a measure of central tendency to summarize the final scores of his basketball team's games for the season, but wants to avoid having a few extreme scores effect the calculation.Therefore, he should avoid using the:

• A)mode
• B)median
• C)mean
• D)standard deviation

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