Question 21

Q2Short answerExercise 14.2

In a diagnostic test in mathematics given to students, the following marks (out of 100) are recorded : 46, 52, 48, 11, 41, 62, 54, 53, 96, 40, 98, 44 Which ‘average’ will be a good representative of the above data and why?

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Median will be a good representative of the data, because (i) each value occcurs once, (ii) The data is influenced by extreme values.