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a researcher is told that the average age of respondents in a survey is 49 years. she is interested in finding out if most respondents are close to 49 years or not. the measure most appropriate to answer this question is:



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The measure that would most correctly answer this question is standard deviation.

What is standard deviation?

The standard deviation is measure of how spread out data from mean.

Step-by-step explanation:

Average age of respondents in a survey is [tex]49[/tex] years. Researcher interested in finding out if most respondents are close to [tex]49[/tex] years or not.

Hence here measures of dispersion fact will be used.

Measures of dispersion are range and standard deviation.

Range is nothing but the difference between maximum and minimum values of the data.

Standard deviation gives proper idea about how far the data values are scattered from the mean point [tex]49[/tex] years.

Therefore the correct option is standard deviation.

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