A statistics class with 40 students consists of 30 students with no income, 10 students with small incomes from part-time jobs,

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A statistics class with 40 students consists of 30 students with no income, 10 students with small incomes from part-time jobs,

and a professor with a very large income that is well deserved. Which is better for describing the income of a typical person in this class: mean or median? Explain.

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fgiga [73] · Answer 1 · 2022-05-28T15:03:40+03:00

fgiga [73]2 years ago

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The median would be better for describing the income of a typical person in the class because the professor's large salary skews the data to the right while all the students are towards the left and center.