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In the context of the Elbow Method and K-means clustering, what does the 'elbow' in the plot represent? The point where adding more clusters does not significantly reduce the within-cluster sum of squares (WCSS)The point where the within-cluster sum of squares (WCSS) is maximisedThe point where the within-cluster sum of squares (WCSS) is minimisedThe point where the number of clusters is equal to the number of data points

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In the context of the Elbow Method and K-means clustering, what does the 'elbow' in the plot represent? The point where adding more clusters does not significantly reduce the within-cluster sum of squares (WCSS)The point where the within-cluster sum of squares (WCSS) is maximisedThe point where the within-cluster sum of squares (WCSS) is minimisedThe point where the number of clusters is equal to the number of data points

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The 'elbow' in the plot represents the point where adding more clusters does not significantly reduce the within-cluster sum of squares (WCSS). This point is typically considered as the optimal number of clusters in K-means clustering. The 'elbow' is called as such because the plot of WCSS against the number of clusters k takes on the shape of an arm, and the 'elbow' is the point of inflection on the arm.

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