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

The students of two rival high schools, Bernards and Ridge, are arguing over whose cross country team is the best. The Bernards High kids have a lot of very good runners while the Ridge kids have two extremely good runners, but everyone else is very bad. If Bernards wants to prove they are the best, which measure of central tendency would they use? What about Ridge?

Select one answer for each school.