One item on a questionnaire asks students how many times in a typical week they eat at a fast-food restaurant.The responses for a sample of n = 10 students are summarized in the frequency distribution.What is the best measure of central tendency for these data?

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Since the data is not a normal distribution and has some extreme values (such as 0 and 5), the median (5+2=7/2=3.5) would be a better measure of central tendency than the mean or mode.

One Item on a Questionnaire Asks Students How Many Times