Question

fill in the blank so that the resulting statement is true.
the measure of central tendency that is the data item in the middle of ranked, or ordered, data is called the
the measure of central tendency that is the data item in the middle of ranked, or ordered, data is called the
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Explanation:

In statistics, the median is defined as the middle value of a set of data when the data is arranged in ascending or descending (ranked/ordered) order. For a dataset with an odd number of observations, it's the middle - most value. For a dataset with an even number of observations, it's the average of the two middle - most values. This fits the description of "the data item in the middle of ranked, or ordered, data" as a measure of central tendency.

Answer:

median