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Which of the following statistics provides the most information about how spread out a distribution of scores is?(A) variance(B) mean(C) range(D) median(E) mode
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(A) Variance: It is a measure of how much the values in a set of data differ from the mean of that data set. It gives an idea of how much variation or "spread" there is in the data. (B) Mean: It is the average of a set of data, calculated by adding up all the Show more…
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