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JAMB Economics 2020 Objective — Question 5

Question 5 of 50 from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Economics 2020 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.

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An advantage of the range as a measure of dispersion is that it

  • A. can be used to calculate open-ended distributionCorrect
  • B. makes use of all values of observations in a distribution
  • C. takes all values into consideration
  • D. is useful for further statistical calculations

Explanation

The range can be calculated even for open-ended distributions, which is an advantage over other dispersion measures.

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