Question

The mean, as a measure of location, would be inappropriate for which of the following? A. Ages of adults at a senior citizen center. B. Number of pages in textbooks on statistics. C. Incomes of lawyers. D. Marital status of college students at a university.

Answer 1

D. Marital status of college students at a university.

Explanation:

The mean, as a measure, is appropriate when we are dealing with quantitative measures, that is, the measure that we are dealing with is a number.

In this question:

Options A(age), B(number of pages) and C(income) are all quantitative, so the mean is appropriate.

In Option D, the marital status is a qualitative measure(married, dating, single), so the mean is innapropriate, and this is the answer,