Question

Ashley collected data to determine how many minutes her classmates spend reading each night. Identify the striking deviation in her data.
A) 5
B) 10
C) 20
D) 40

Answer 1

The striking deviation in her data would be the one result of 40.

40 is an example of an outlier. It is a value that is not close to the other values. In this case 40, is much higher than most of the other numbers.