Answer:
d. Range
Step-by-step explanation:
In order to figure out which term is used, we first need to define how each term ends up becoming a value:
- Mean is the average of all of the values on the data set
- Median is the value in the middle of the dataset, aka the number that we find by counting exactly half of the values into the data set
- Mode is the number in the dataset that appears most often
- Range is how far the dataset goes from start to finish as a number
We can see how each of these is calculated to find out answer:
- Mean is calculated by adding up all of the points and dividing it by the number of points we added
- Median is calculated by taking half of the number of data points and counting from either direction until we reach the center value
- Mode is calculated by counting how many times any individual value appears in a dataset
- Range is calculated by subtracting the highest point in the dataset by the lowest point in the dataset
The calculation for range best fits what we are looking for in the question, so D is the correct answer.
