A defunct website listed the "average" annual income for Florida as $35,031. What is the role of the term average in statisti
cs? Should another term be used in place of average? Choose the correct answer below. A. The term average is not used in statistics. The term mean should be used for the result obtained by adding all of the sample values and dividing by the total number of sample values. B. The term average is not used in statistics. The term median should be used for the result obtained by adding all of the sample values and dividing by the total number of sample values. C. The term average is often used in statistics to represent the mean. D. The term average is often used in statistics to represent the median.
Average is the sum of the items in a data divided by the number of items in the data. The role of average is to determine a representative value for the given set of data. What average refers to in statistics is the arithmetic mean. There are other types of mean as well. Therefore, what we are referring to in this scenario is the arithmetic mean. Therefore, another term should not be used in place of average. Therefore, the correct option is
C. The term average is often used in statistics to represent the mean.
