Determine whether the following statement makes sense or does not make sense, and explain the reasoning.

The mean can be misleading if you don't know the spread of data items.

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Part 1

Choose the correct answer below.

A.

The statement makes sense because there may exist some outliers (maybe much greater or much less than the rest of the data) in the data items.

B.

The statement does not make sense because the mean measures the spread of the data items.

C.

The statement makes sense because mean is not always the true average of the data.

D.

The statement does not make sense because the mean is the true center of the data.