Question

Answer the following questions in about 125 words:
(ii) Comment on the applicability of mean, median and mode (hint: from their
merits and demerits).

Answer 1

Explanation:

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Answer 2

Advantage of mean, median and mode

Explanation:

Mean-

• Advantage=

1.Arithmetic mean is defined by algebraic formula.

2.It is based on all the observation of a given data.

3.It is widely used in statistical analysis because it is treated in mathematics.

4.It is not randomly affected by fluctuation of sampling.

5.It can be calculated for every kind of data.

• Disadvantage=

1.It can't be computed for qualitative data .

2.Extreme values does't affect it.

3.It can not be determined by inspection or by graphical location.

Median

• Advantage=1. simply understand and calculated easily.
• It lies in the middle part and does't affected by extreme values.
• It is used in qualitative phenomena like intelligence, beauty etc.
• Disadvantage=

• It is less representative because it doesn't depends on all items of  the series.

Mode

• Advantage-
• Easy to calculate.
• Used in qualitative data.

• Graphically located.
• Disadvantage-

• It can't be well defined.
• All values are not based on this.
• Not applicable for mathematical treatment.