The range,a measure of variability,
A) is the difference between the largest (L) and smallest (S) value in a list of scores.
B) is most informative when used to describe data sets without outliers.
C) includes only two values in its computation, regardless of the number of scores in a distribution.
D) all of these.

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The range is defined as the difference between the largest and smallest values in a dataset (A), is most informative for datasets without outliers because outliers can disproportionately affect the range (B), and indeed, only involves the two extreme values in its computation, regardless of the total number of scores in the distribution (C).

The Range,a Measure of Variability