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ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ABOUT MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY.A) WHICH 2 MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY ARE AFFECTED BY EXTREME SCORES?B) WHICH MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY IS USED THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK: WORKS WELL WITH MANY STATISTICAL METHODS?C) WHAT MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY MIGHT NOT EXIST FOR A SAMPLE OF DATA?

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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, we want to answer questions about the measures of central tendency. Measures of tendency refer to single values which help us to give a definition to a set of data.

Now, let us answer the individual questions:

(a) The correct answers are the arithmetic mean and the median. These two values are the most sensitive to extreme values. The mean is likely to go up as a result of an extreme value while there might be a skew for the median if there are extreme values

(c) The mode might not exist for a sample of data. This is because it has to deal with the frequency of occurrence of a particular data point. In a scenario where all the data points are singly represented, there will not be a mode

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