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Bob-Dole

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What is a major disadvantage of just reporting the mean, median, and mode of a data set?
 
  A) All these values are subjective and open to interpretation by the person making the calculations.
  B) None of these values tell how widely dispersed the data are around it.
  C) The information provided by the mean, median, and mode are not related to each other.
  D) The values do not indicate why the data were collected.

Question 2

What does the mode of a data set represent?
 
  A) The average of the value of all the data
  B) The inverse of the mean calculated from all the values
  C) The median value of the data set
  D) The value that occurs most frequently


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vseab

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Reply #1 on: Jun 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

D


Bob-Dole

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Reply 2 on: Jun 25, 2018
Excellent

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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