A Researcher Is Measuring the Amount of Time Needed to Solve

question 43

Multiple Choice

A researcher is measuring the amount of time needed to solve a set of anagrams for a sample of n = 15 students.However,one of the participants fails to solve the problems so the researcher has an undetermined score.What is the best measure of central tendency for these data?​

• A)​mean
• B)​median
• C)​mode
• D)​weighted mean

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