A researcher records the hospital admission rates for coronary heart disease at 10 local hospitals.She finds that two different hospitals had the highest overall rates of hospital admissions.Which measure of central tendency did this researcher use to describe these data?
A) mean
B) median
C) mode
D) range

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The mode is the measure of central tendency that identifies the most frequently occurring values in a dataset. Since the researcher found two hospitals with the highest rates of admissions, she identified the most common values, indicating she used the mode.

A Researcher Records the Hospital Admission Rates for Coronary Heart