he data below are the frequency of cremation burials found in 17 archaeological sites. a. Obtain the mean, median, and mode of these data. b. Which measure of center do you think works best here? 81 69 46 48 526 33 32 265 2255 46 372 23 87 413 55 246 116 Question content area bottom Part 1 a. The mean is enter your response here. (Round to one decimal place as needed.) Part 2 The median is enter your response here. (Round to one decimal place as needed.) Part 3 Select the correct choice below and fill in any answer boxes within your choice. A. The mode is enter your response here. (Round to one decimal place as needed.) B. There is no mode. Part 4 b. Which measure of center works best here? A. The mean works best. The mode is highly affected by the largest value and the median is well to the left of the distribution's center. B. The mode works best. The median is highly affected by the largest value and the mean is well to the left of the distribution's center. C. The median works best. The mean is highly affected by the largest value and the mode is well to the left of the distribution's center. D. Each center of measure works equally well.

Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

18th Edition

ISBN:9780079039897

Author:Carter

Publisher:Carter

Chapter10: Statistics

Section10.3: Measures Of Spread

Problem 22PFA

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Part 1

The mean is

enter your response here.

(Round to one decimal place as needed.)

Part 2

The median is

enter your response here.

(Round to one decimal place as needed.)

Part 3

Select the correct choice below and fill in any answer boxes within your choice.

The mode is

enter your response here.

(Round to one decimal place as needed.)

There is no mode.

Part 4

Which measure of center works best here?

The mean works best. The mode is highly affected by the largest value and the median is well to the left of the distribution's center.

The mode works best. The median is highly affected by the largest value and the mean is well to the left of the distribution's center.

The median works best. The mean is highly affected by the largest value and the mode is well to the left of the distribution's center.

Each center of measure works equally well.

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the value that occurs most frequently in a data set. A data set may have more than one mode if multiple categories repeat an equal number of times. For example, in a data set with five item—3, 5, 5, 29, 473—the mode is 5 because it occurs twice and no other value occurs more than once. On a histogram or bar chart, the element with the highest bar represents the mode. Therefore, the mode is sometimes considered the most popular option. The mode is useful for nominal or categorical data (e.g., the most common color car that users purchase), but it is problematic for continuous data because it is more likely not to have any value that is more frequent than the other.

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