Organizing and Summarizing Data When your distribution of scores is 1 2 4 9 10 10, you should use the _____ to represent central tendency.
A)mean
B)median
C)mode
D)range

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The median is the best choice for this distribution because it is not affected by extreme scores like the mean and it represents the middle value in the distribution. The mode is not a good choice because there is no score that occurs more frequently than the others. The range represents the spread of scores, not the central tendency.

Organizing and Summarizing Data When Your Distribution of Scores Is