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Central tendency is measured in three ways: mean, median and mode. The mean is simply the average score of a distribution. The median is the center, or middle score within a distribution. The mode is the most frequent score within a distribution. In a normal distribution, the mean, median and mode are identical.

Student	# of Crayons
A	8
B	16
C	16
D	32
E	32
F	32
G	48
H	48
J	56