The measures in this chapter are known as measures of central tendency because they tend to
a. fall toward the center of a distribution, where most scores are located.
b. be central to our understanding of statistics.
c. be located at the midpoint of a class interval.
d. all of the above.
(a) fall toward the center of a distribution, where most scores are located
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