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Mrs. Greene's science class built a catapult out of scrap pieces of wood. Each student jumped on one end of the catapult to launch a marshmallow and measured how far away it landed. This line plot shows the distribution of launch distances.
Catapult experiment
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Launch distance (meters)
Complete the sentences.
The distribution of launch distances is best described as
. So, the
are both appropriate measures of center.

The distribution of launch distances is best described as spread out. So, the median and mean are both appropriate measures of center.