Which of the following best describes measures of center?
A) They are numbers around which observations tend to cluster and that describe the location of what in some sense might be called the center of a data set.
B) They are numbers that indicate the spread or scatter of observations and show the extent to which individual values in a data set differ from one another and, hence, differ from their central location.
C) They are numbers that indicate the degree of asymmetry in a frequency distribution.
D) None of these.
E) All of these.

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Measures of center, such as the mean, median, and mode, describe the location of the center of a data set. They indicate where the majority of observations tend to cluster.

Which of the Following Best Describes Measures of Center