The following table lists the number of text messages sent per day in a sample of college students and a sample of their parents.

(a) Compute the mean, the median, and the mode for the college students' and parents' data.
(b) Based on the shape of the distribution for each sample, which measure of central tendency is most appropriate for describing each sample? Explain how describing each sample with only the most appropriate measure might be misleading.

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Parunts CollcgcStudents 43 12 14 13 04 21 17 19 24 50 15 21 21 20 21 10