A teacher wants to find out the average number of weekly reading hours of her students. She noted the number of reading hours of
5 of her students as shown below: 6, 2, 5, 3, 4 Which measure of central tendency is most appropriate for this situation, and what is its value? Only the median; 5 Only the mean; 4 Either the mean or median; both are 5 Either the mean or median; both are 4
the mean is calculated by adding the values up and dividing by the number of values. the median is calculated by ordering them from least to greatest and finding the middle value (sometimes there are two).
