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audie

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The accompanying data set contains quiz scores for 12 students in a chemistry class: 18, 15, 5, 8, 15, 20, 2, 16, 10, 12, 20, 15.
 
  a. Find a measure of central tendency that is resistant to the influence of extremely small quiz scores.
  b.
 
  Find a measure of central tendency that represents the quiz score that occurs most often.
  c. Find a measure of central tendency that represents the average of the 12 quiz scores.

Question 2

The sampling distribution of a sample statistic is the distribution of the values of the statistic theoretically generated by taking repeated random samples of size n and computing the value of the statistic for each sample.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false


Zebsrer

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

a. median = 15
b. mode = 15
c. mean = 13

Answer to Question 2

TRUE


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