A humorous story problem, which you can personalize will hold the students interest and have them calculating the measures of central tendency and using critical thinking skills to justify which measure is most appropriate for each of the three given situations. It is a nice lesson for discussion for student groups.
It is assumed that students have learned how to find the measures of central tendency.

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