Question

Emily recorded the test scores of the students in her class in the dot plot below. Which measure of center would be best to use for this distribution?

Answer 1

You can tell they go by 5’s 50,55,60,70,75,80,85,90,95,100

Answer 2

The measure of center that would be best to use for this distribution is the mean

Which measure of center would be best to use for this distribution?

From the question, we have the following parameters that can be used in our computation:

The dot plot

On the dot plot, we can see that

There are no outliers

The most appropriate measure of central tendency for a distribution with no outliers is the mean.

This is so because mean is affected by outliers