Answer:
Data set B has a higher range than data set A and thus B has a higher degree of variability than A.
Step-by-step explanation:
There are several measures of variability in Statistics among them being;
The range
The inter-quartile range
Variance and standard deviation
To compare the variability of two or more sets of data, we can compute any of the above measures of dispersion and compare them across the various data sets.
In this question we have been given two data sets;
Data Set A: 18, 24, 29, 30, 39
Data Set B: 26, 29, 39, 40, 52
The simplest measure of variability or dispersion is the range. The range is defined as the difference between the maximum and the minimum values in a data set.
The range of data set A is; 39 - 18 = 21
The range of data set B is; 52 - 26 = 26
Data set B has a higher range than data set A and thus B has a higher degree of variability than A.
