Which of these three measures of central tendency (mean, median, or mode) do you think a teacher should use to describe differences between the boys or the girls in how many days they missed?

MEAN FOR BOYS = 3.7

MEDIAN FOR BOYS= 2.5

MODE FOR BOYS= 1

MEAN FOR GIRLS=3.4

MEDIAN FOR GIRLS =3

MODE FOR GIRLS =3

Which of these two measures of dispersion (range or standard deviation) do you think a teacher should use to describe how spread out the missed days are for the boys and the girls? Explain your answer

RANGE FOR BOYS =15

ST.DEV FOR BOYS=3.554017

RANGE FOR GIRLS=9

ST.DEV FOR GIRLS=2.186080366