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What does the word central tendency mean in math?
"Central tendency" is a phrase comprising TWO words, it is not a word. Central tendency refers to the tendency of some data sets to collect around their middle value.
What is central tendency?
Though mean, median, and mode is central tendency, it is hard to put this into words.For an example:Your average grade in math class is an A. Though, how did you calculate that average? Well, since average means mean, you calculated that average using the method of central tendency, or in this situation, you found the mean.In other words, central tendency is just a method (mean, median and mode) to find the average, middle, and most occurring score or number in a set of data.I hope this helped! ;D~Lovingless
What is the difference between central tendency and average or mean?
The average or mean is one measure of central tendency. There are several.
What are the importances of Central Tendency?
Central tendency is important because it is used to calculate an average on a collection of data. Central Tendency includes the mean, median, and mode.
Why do we use mean median mode and range to solve math problems?
We use mean for measure the central tendency and mode for observed most common value of observation.
