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A researcher is measuring problem-solving times for a sample of n = 20 children. However, one of the children fails to solve the problem, so the researcher has an undetermined score. What is the best measure of central tendency for these data?

a. the mean
b. the median
c. the mode
d. Central tendency cannot be determined for these data.

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