Kurt Wants to Use a Measure of Central Tendency to Summarize

question 222

Multiple Choice

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

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

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