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Word Problems: When to Use Mean, Median, and Mode

By Victoria Rodriguez
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A table of Baseball Game attendance and what year it was. The data, row by row, are: 1961 - 1,199,128 1971 - 1,501,132 1981 - 541,789 1991 - 2,065,302 2001 - 2,464,870 2011 - 1,940,429

The above table lists the average baseball game attendance for the Pittsburgh Pirates for the years 1961,1971,1981,1991,2001,20111961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011. The owners of the team want to know the average attendance over this fifty year span in order to predict future game attendance. Given the data above what measure of central tendency will best represent this data?

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