Explain why the shoe company would desire that a weighted average be computed in this situation rather than a simple numeric average.
A. The weighted average takes into account the variation in the data instead of only providing a measure of central tendency.
B. The weighted average takes into account the numbers of employees and finds the average payment per employee instead of the average payment per plant.
C. The weighted average takes into account the numbers of employees and is a more reasonable measure of the average payments than would be an un-weighted average.
D. The weighted average takes into account both the mean and the median of the data, instead of only providing the simpler measure of only the mean.
