What would you use to summarize a metric variable?
A)mean, range, standard deviation
B)mode, range, standard deviation
C)mean, frequency or percentage distribution
D)metric distribution of the mean
E)none of the above; you cannot summarize metric variables

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To summarize a metric (quantitative) variable, it's common to use the mean to describe the central tendency, the range to describe the spread, and the standard deviation to describe how much the values vary from the mean.

What Would You Use to Summarize a Metric Variable