Question

A DVD rental service wants to pay close attention to what movies their customers like the most. Which measure of central tendency will give them the best estimate? Explain.

Answer 1

Mode.

Because it is used to determine the most frequently occurring item which in this case is movie.

Explanation:

The 3 measure of central tendencies are namely;

Mean, median mode.

- Mean is defined as the average of a set of data.

- Median is the middle term of a set of data that splits that set of data into 2.

- Mode is the term that occurs most frequently in a set of data.

In this question, we want to find the movies most frequently watched.

Thus, from the definitions above earlier, it is clear that the only way to know this is using the mode.