Sarabeth used a box-and-whisker plot to summarize her race times in minutes. She didn't include her latest race time of 28 minut

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Sarabeth used a box-and-whisker plot to summarize her race times in minutes. She didn't include her latest race time of 28 minut

es. How will the inclusion of this new time affect the box-and-whisker plot?

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fenix001 [56] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-17T11:47:17+03:00

Depending on if this makes an outlier, or if it is not. If it is then it will change the mean a good bit positive or negative depending on if it is it being a high or low outlier. The median will not be as effected by this new number because it will only move one point in either direction.