Question

Given the box plot, will the mean or the median provide a better description of the center?

Answer 1

It would be taking the median, since the data distribution is skewed to the right.
The reason for this is that half of the numbers occupy a small space of between 7 and 8. Therefore, the extreme values on the right can give you a misrepresentation of the data if you use the mean, which is why is would be more accurate to use the median instead of the mean.