The first exam in a freshman physics class of 7 students yie
The first exam in a freshman physics class of 7 students yielded the following scores: 32%, 75%, 100%, 54%, 100%, 25%, 61%
How effective is reporting the mode of this exam in conveying the “central tendency” of the data?
Solution
Mode of this exam is 100%,
while mean = 63.85%
median = 61%
Clearly, mode of this exam is considerably ineffective in conveying the central tendency of the data.
