The Following Ten Scores Were Obtained on a 20-Point Quiz

question 154

Multiple Choice

The following ten scores were obtained on a 20-point quiz: 4,5,8,9,11,13,15,18,18,and 20.The teacher computed the usual descriptive measures of center (central tendency) and variability (dispersion) for these data,and then discovered an error was made.One of the 18s should have been a 16.Which of the following measures,calculated on the corrected data,would change from the original computation?

• A)median
• B)arithmetic mean
• C)range
• D)geometric mean

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