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Abigail Cates To complete the following exercises, you need to open the ADVENTURES.SAV file. The questions are ten points each, and I do give partial credit. Produce and analyze frequency distributions and appropriate measures of central tendency for the variables RACE, HEALTH, and TEENSEX. Cut and paste all three frequency distributions here:

Then, use your output to answer Questions 1 through 6. 1. (RACE) The largest racial grouping of respondents to the 2018 GSS was __White_______________, with _____72.1____________%. The second-largest grouping was _____Black____________, with ____16.4_____________%. 2. Which measure of central tendency (mean, median, or mode) is most appropriate to summarize the distribution of RACE, and why? ___ Mode provides the best summary of the set, because white is the most frequent race in the data set._______ The value of that measure is ______1___________. 3. (HEALTH) ____49.1_____________% of respondents to the 2018 GSS reported that they are in good health. This was followed by _____22.9____________% of respondents who reported being in excellent health, whereas about _______28__________% of respondents reported being in either fair or poor health. 4. Which measure of central tendency (mean, median, or mode) is most appropriate to summarize the distribution of HEALTH, and why?__The median provides the best summary because using the median eliminates non-symmetric distributions, and the value is Good Health._________ The value of that measure is _____2____________. 5. (TEENSEX) Nearly _____75.2____________% of respondents to the 2018 GSS believe that sex before marriage, particularly for teens 14 to 16 years of age, is either always wrong or almost always wrong. Only _____8.6____________% think it is not wrong at all, whereas ____16.2_____________% think it is sometimes wrong. 6. Which measure of central tendency (mean, median, or mode) is most appropriate to summarize the distribution of TEENSEX, and why? __ The most appropriate

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