Question

The amounts of money Brittany earned each week from babysitting for 5 weeks are $12, $62, $70, $54, and $62. The mean amount earned is $52 and the median amount earned is $62. Identify the outlier and describe how the mean and median are affected by it.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The outlier is $12, results in a decrease in the mean. Outliers have little influence on the median.

If you actually calculate and try and find an outlier, this dataset doesn't have one. But I'm going to assume they're just looking for an extreme number in the set since it clearly says to identify it