Question

A basketball coach keeps track of the points scored per game for all of her players. She gives a trophy to the player with the highest mean score at the end of the season. Why does she uses the mean instead of the median?

Answer 1

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The mean is the average of how many points a player usually scores while median is the number that is the middle number of all the points she scored in games. mean takes into count all the games while median only takes into account one game.

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Answer 2

Answer:

The mean is the average so whoever has the higher average gets the trophy instead of the median because that wouldn't be fair because a good player might have had a bad game.

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