A measure of variability that indicates the variability in a data set is called the ______________.
A) range
B) standard deviation
C) mode
D) z-score

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The standard deviation is a measure of how spread out a data set is from its mean. It takes into account all the data in the set and is a more reliable measure of variability than just the range or mode. The z-score is a measure of how many standard deviations a particular value is from the mean, and is not a measure of variability for the whole data set.

A Measure of Variability That Indicates the Variability in a Data