Areport includes a statement that the "average" test score of applicants to medical schools is 28.4. what is the role of the term "average" in statistics? should another term be used in place of average?

See explanation below.

Step-by-step explanation:

The average is measure of central tendency that is also called sample mean and is calculated from the following formula:

This is an estimator of the population mean and is unbiased since the expected value for the estimator is the same parameter as we can see here:

And is important because is the most common measure of central tendency reported on any study.

Is important to remember that this measure can be affected by outliers , for this case when we have outliers is better use the median as a measure of central tendency

idk lol

step-by-step explanation:

i got 10.28 but that rounds up to 10.3