OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e §2.5 Measures of the Center of the Data · Try It 4 · Statistics · Describing data

Measures of the Center of the Data · Try It 4

Five credit scores are 680, 680, 700, 720, 720. The data set is bimodal because the scores 680 and 720 each occur twice. Consider the annual earnings of workers at a factory. The mode is $25,000 and occurs 150 times out of 301. The median is $50,000 and the mean is $47,500. What would be the best measure of the “center”?

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