A data analyst needs to determine the most common number of minutes users spend on a company's website. Which of the following statistical measures should be applied to find this value?

The correct answer is C. Mode. The mode is the value that appears most frequently in a dataset, making it the correct measure when you need to find the 'most common' value. The mean and average (which are the same thing) calculate the arithmetic center of the data and can be skewed by outliers. The median is…

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AMean
BAverage
CMode
DMedian

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The mode is the value that appears most frequently in a dataset, making it the correct measure when you need to find the 'most common' value. The mean and average (which are the same thing) calculate the arithmetic center of the data and can be skewed by outliers. The median is the middle value when data is sorted. Only mode directly identifies the single most frequently occurring value in the dataset.

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