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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.

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 o

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