Jamilla is interested in how many pizza slices the average teenage boy would eat for lunch. Thus, she asks 25 young men from her high school home room class to eat pizza and computes the average. This average would be called a ___________.
A) measure of variability
B) measure of dispersion
C) mean
D) inferential statistic

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The average computed by Jamilla is called the mean, which represents the central tendency of the data. Option A is incorrect because a measure of variability describes how spread out the data is, not the central tendency. Option B is incorrect because a measure of dispersion also describes how spread out the data is. Option D is incorrect because inferential statistics involve making generalizations about a population based on a sample, which is not what Jamilla is doing in this scenario.

Jamilla Is Interested in How Many Pizza Slices the Average