The Following 10 Scores Were Obtained on a 20-Point Quiz

question 50

Multiple Choice

The following 10 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 centre and variability for these data, and then discovered an error was made. One of the 18s should have been a 16. Which pair of the following measures, calculated on the corrected data, would change from the original computation?

• A) mean and standard deviation
• B) mean and median
• C) range and median
• D) mean and range

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