Question

Bryan plays on the high school basketball team. In his first ten games he scored 12, 14, 8, 9, 8, 16, 8, 13, 22, and 19 points. Choose and calculate the best measure of central tendency to represent Bryan's scoring over the first ten games. Justify your choice.

Answer 1

The best tendency is the "middle" or "most common" value, so basically it's either the mean or the mode- in this case we use the mode and we can see 12,14,8,9,8, 13, 22 ,19 so 8,8,9,12,13,14,18,22 ; the answer is 13