Determine whether The range or Interquartile range your best describes the spread of a data set. The Times for a high school boys 100 meter race.

Question

11.0 11.2 11.7 12.2 12.4 12.6 12.8 12.9 13.1 13.3 13.8 14.2 14.3 14.3 16.5 17.618.0

Answer 1

The range best describes the spread of the data set, as it provides the overall difference between the lowest and highest times recorded in the 100 meter race. The Interquartile range would only provide information about the middle 50% of the data, which may not be as informative in this context.