The three commonly used measures of central tendency (mode, median, and mean)

a. will always have the same value.
b. will always fall in the same order: the mean will have the highest value, followed by the median and the mode.
c. define "typical" or "average" in different ways and will usually have different values.
d. will always fall in the same order: the mean will have the lowest value, the median will always be in the middle and the mode will have the highest value.


ANSWER: c

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