A statistic that describes a location within a data set is a ________.
A) measure of location
B) measure of shapes
C) measure of variability
D) measure of occasion

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A measure of location is a statistic that describes the central tendency or middle of a dataset, such as the mean, median, or mode. Measures of shapes describe the distribution of the data, measures of variability describe the spread of the data, and measures of occasion do not exist in statistics.

A Statistic That Describes a Location Within a Data Set