Family A and Family B both have 8 people in their family.
The ages of each member is listed below.
Family A: 35, 5, 42, 9, 16, 3, 8, 12
Family B: 1, 5, 29, 3, 7, 35, 6, 9
Which statement is correct about the variability of the two
families?
a. The variability is the same for both Family A and Family B
because they have the same mean absolute deviation
b. The variability for Family A is greater because the mean is
greater for Family A
c. The variability for Family B is greater because the mean
absolute deviation is greater for Family
d. There is not enough information to determine the variability,