Question

The following data set shows the number of books checked out from a library during the first two weeks of the month:

Answer 1

There is one outlier, indicating very few books were checked out on that day.

Answer 2

Answer: There is one outlier, indicating very few books were checked out on that day.

Step-by-step explanation:

The given data of he number of books checked out from a library during the first two weeks of the month:

36, 39, 40, 42, 45, 2, 38, 41, 37, 38, 35, 37, 35, 38

Here , all the data value are near to each other except one i.e. 2.

Since 2 is very small value as compare to the other data values.

It means 2 is the outlier for the data.

It means only 2 books were checked out on that day, which is much lesser number of books than the other day.

Hence, the statements is true based on the data set :

There is one outlier, indicating very few books were checked out on that day.