Dorothea conducts a survey to find out how many national parks people have visited in the past two years. She polls twenty people and finds that ten people have visited no national parks; five people have visited one national park; four people have visited two national parks; and one person has visited twenty national parks. Which measure of central tendency should Dorothea use to provide the

most accurate picture of her data?

a. ?Mean
b. ?Median
c. ?Mode
d. ?Standard deviation


ANSWER:
b

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