A Disadvantage of Using an Arithmetic Mean to Summarize a Set

question 34

Multiple Choice

A disadvantage of using an arithmetic mean to summarize a set of data is that __________.

• A) The arithmetic mean sometimes has two values
• B) It can be used for interval and ratio data
• C) It is always different from the median
• D) It can be biased by one or two extremely small or large values

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