Question

Give one example of a situation in which a) the mean is an appropriate measure of central tendency.
b) the the mean is not an appropriate measure of central tendency but the median is an appropriate measure of central tendency.

Answer 1

Answer:

(i) While if we take the case of calculating the weight of students in a class, then we should use mean rather than median. In such cases taking median is not suitable.

(ii) If the score of students in a class are 1,2,3,4,20

So if we calculate the mean =1+2+3+4+20​/5=30​/5=6

Median =3

So, median is better or appropriate measure because 20 is much greater than other numbers and because of 20 the mean has come out to 6.

∴ Its better to take median than mean.

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