Which of the following is the correct description of frequency?

A) the number of observations that fall within a certain category or range of scores
B) a measure of how spread out values are within a distribution
C) a measure of the central point of a distribution
D) the distance between the highest and lowest value in a distribution


Answer: A
Rationale: Frequency simply indicates the number of instances of something. For example, if three students scored a 100% on a quiz, the frequency of perfect scores would be 3.

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