Question

In the past month, Ryan has had five pizzas delivered. He kept a record of how long it took to get the
pizzas: 35 minutes, 25 minutes, 15 minutes, 40 minutes, and 50 minutes.
If the sixth time he orders pizza, it takes 95 minutes, how will this affect his data?
a.) It will have little to no effect on both the mean and the median.
b.) It will have little to no effect on the mean, but it will make the median a less useful measure
of center.
c.) It will make both the mean and the median less useful measures of center.
d.) It will have little to no effect on the median, but it will make the mean a less useful measure
of center.

Answer 1

It will have little to no effect on the median, but it will make the mean a less useful measure of center.

How to determine the effect?

The initial data elements are given as:

35, 25, 15, 40, 50

When a new data element is added, we have:

35, 25, 15, 40, 50, 95

See that 95 is far from the other data elements.

This means that 95 is an outlier of the data elements

Outliers have effects on the mean and it renders the mean useless.

However, it has little to no effect on the median

Hence, the true statement is (d)

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