<span>2+3(x-3)+1-5(2-x)
The first thing we must do is distribute...
2 + 3x - 9 + 1 - 10 + 5x
Then we must combine like terms. We can combine terms with an x together and we can combine terms without an x together.
2 - 9 + 1 - 10 = -16
3x + 5x = 8x
So our simplified expression is C. 8x - 16</span>
The given equation is
To solve for x, we have to subtract 8 to both sides
Now we need to get rid of -9 from the left side, and for that we do division
<span>The median would be preferred over the mean in such scenarios because the median will lessen the impact of the outliers that fall within the "tail" of the skew. Therefore, if a curve is normally distributed, that is to say that data is normally distributed, there will be two tails, each with approximately equal proportions of outliers. Outliers in this case being more extreme numbers, and are based on your determination depending on how you are using the data. If data is skewed there is one tail, and therefore it may be an inaccurate measure of central tendency if you use the mean of the numbers. Thinking of this visually. In positively skewed data where there is a "tail" towards the right and a "peak" towards the left, the median will be placed more in the "peak", whereas the mean will be placed more towards the "tail", making it a poorer measure of central tendency, or the center of the data.</span>
