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Which is the best measure of central tendency for the type of data below–the mean, the median, or the mode? explain. hours of sleep each night median; there will be outliers range; there are no outliers mode; the data are non-numeric mean; the outliers are limited?

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Mean, because the outliers are limited.

There will be nights when you get more sleep or less sleep than usual, but overall, they will not be far away from the rest of the data you're comparing.
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