Question

Suppose jamal fell during one race and recorded a time of 210s. Which of the mean, median, and mode would be most affected

Answer 1

Answer:

Mean would be most affected

Step-by-step explanation:

The mean is defined as the average value . If the data has extreme values then the average value automatically changes.

The median is the value which divides the data in to two halves. It is not affected by the extreme values. The middle value remains the same.

The mode is the value which occurs repeatedly. An extreme value in a data does not affect the mode.

For example I have 5 chocolate bars of sizes 5,6,7,7,9  and another 5 chocolate bars of sizes  5,6,7,7,12

Mean for the two sizes will be 34/5= 6.8  and 37/5=7.4

The median and mode in both sets is 7

So the mean is most affected with change in value.