True or False? If a distrubution of observations are all negative numbers and has the five-number summary shown below, then, because all values are negative, the minimum observation in the data set is -1.? Numbers are:
-15,-10,-7,-2,-1
Five number summary= min, q1, mean, q3, max...

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True or False? If a distrubution of observations are all negative numbers and has the five-number summary shown below, then, because all values are negative, the minimum observation in the data set is -1.? Numbers are:
-15,-10,-7,-2,-1 
Five number summary= min, q1, mean, q3, max...

anonymous · Answer

I thought it would be true but other questions like this said it was false, I'm thinking it is because of outliers?

anonymous · Answer

Minimum = -15 coz that is the lowest number.

anonymous · Answer

Max is -1. Largest number.

anonymous · Answer

Mean would be the sum of all numbers divided by number of those numbers.

-15-10-7-2-1/5 = -7

anonymous · Answer

Yea, that is what I was thinking but it seems like a trick question?

anonymous · Answer

I ain't got a clue what q1 and q3 mean.

anonymous · Answer

q1 and q3 are just the mean of the means, of the numbers above and below the mean...

anonymous · Answer

See....no wonder I hated terminology. Real english is always better.

anonymous · Answer

I don't understand why it would do -1=minimum when it should be the maximum, it seems like a trick question to me? So I guess it would be false then?

anonymous · Answer

-1 is the maximum. Unless, it is about absolute value.

anonymous · Answer

Absolute value means "remove the negative sign". :)

anonymous · Answer

Yay, I got it right...yea, the only thing that threw me off so badly was the fact it seemed like a trick question, thanks for the help!

anonymous · Answer

Excellent!