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jon_i

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on: Jun 20, 2018
Which of the following measures of central tendency is potentially misleading if the data are collected on an ordinal scale?
 
  a. mean
  b. median
  c. mode
  d. none of the above

Question 2

Alison received a score of 480 on the verbal portion of her SAT. If she scored at the 50th percentile, her score represents the _______ of the distribution of all verbal SAT scores.
 
  a. mean
  b. median
  c. mode
  d. average


meganlapinski

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

B


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