Question

A student wants to report on the number of books her friends read each week. The collected data are below: 0 24 1 4 5 2 5 4 Which measure of center is most appropriate for this situation and what is its value? Median; 2 Median; 4 Mean; 2 Mean; 4

Answer 1

The median is the best measure becuase of the outlier (24).

Median = middle value of 0 1 2 4 4 5 5 24 which is 4

Answer is Median 4