Tap every statement true of the range
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Items
- Text
- Uses only the two extreme values
- Matches the category
- Yes
- Text
- Gives a rough idea of scatter
- Matches the category
- Yes
- Text
- Ignores everything in between
- Matches the category
- Yes
- Text
- Measures spread about the mean
- Matches the category
- No
- Text
- Uses every observation
- Matches the category
- No
- Category
- True of the RANGE
Explanation
It is quick to compute and easily fooled by one extreme value. Source: syllabus Maths, Ch 13 Statistics.