Measure of central location for data

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A production manager is interested in determing the typical proportion of defective items in a shipment of one of the computer components that her company manufactures. The spreadsheet provided in the file P02_02.xls contains the proportion of defective components for each of 500 radomly selected shipments collected during a 1- month period. Is the mean, median, or mode the most appropriate measure of central location for these data?

1. Define for mean, median, and mode.

A. Is my reasoning right on this question?

B. Is the question asking for something mathematical?

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