Question

Part A - Identify the outlier 3,52,54,64,69,71,77,79,82,88 Part B - Calculate the mean and median with the outlier. Part C - Calculate the mean and median without the outlier. Part D - How did the outlier affect the mean and median? Does the outlier have a greater effect on the mean or the median? Justify your answer with your calculations.

Answer 1

The outlier is 3, and the outlier has a greater effect on the mean because it is an average of all numbers where as the median is just the middle value in the data set. Everything else you can do on your own. To find the mean you add all the numbers up and divide by the total amount of numbers there are, the median you just cross one out from the left and then cross one out from the right and continue doing this until you are left with one number, or if you are left with two numbers you can add those two numbers up and then divide them by 2