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You are asked to determine whether the workers live in the community. Your personnel department provides the following table:

Race Live in the community
White 49.2%
Black 15.5%
Asian/Pacific Islander 23.1%
Other 39.6%

What summary measure of central tendency do you report? Why not the others? What does that measure tell us?

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The expert measures the central tendency for workers living in the community.

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