Office Workers Were Asked How Long It Took Them to Travel

question 54

Multiple Choice

Office workers were asked how long it took them to travel to work one morning.Here is the stem-and-leaf display.
Would you use the median or the mean to describe the centre of this distribution?

• A)Mean,because the data are skewed to the right.
• B)Median,because the data are skewed to the left.
• C)Mean,because the data are skewed to the left.
• D)Mean,because the data are symmetric.
• E)Median,because the data are skewed to the right.

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Definitions:

The Median

A statistical measure representing the middle value in a given set of numbers, where half the numbers are above and half are below this value.

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