Which of the following statements about descriptive statistics is false?
A) The minimum is the smallest value in a collection of values.
B) The range is the values starting with the minimum and ending with the maximum.
C) The count is the number of values in a collection.
D) Measures of dispersion (also called measures of variability), such as count, help determine how spread out values are.

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Measures of dispersion, such as range, variance, and standard deviation, indicate how spread out the values are, not the count. The count is a measure of frequency, indicating the total number of observations.

Which of the Following Statements About Descriptive Statistics Is False