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* Description/Instructions. The familiar measures of center (mean, median, mode) and spread (range, standard deviation, variance, and interquartile range) will generally not be directly tested on the AP exam, because you can determine these so easily on your calculator. Description/Instructions. The familiar measures of center (mean, median, mode) and spread (range, standard deviation, variance, and interquartile range) will generally not be directly tested on the AP exam, because you can determine these so easily on your calculator.
There are many reasons why the measure of the spread of data values is important, but one of the main reasons regards its relationship with measures of central tendency. A measure of spread gives us an idea of how well the mean, for example, represents the data. If the spread of values in the data set is large, the mean is not as representative of the data as if the spread of data is small. This is because a large spread indicates that there are probably large differences between individual scores.