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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Use complete sentences to explain what an outlier is and how it affects the mean?

OpenStudy (btaylor):

Let's give a sample data set: 1 2 3 4 5 4 2 3 1 5 2 4 100. First, what is the outlier?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

100

OpenStudy (btaylor):

Exactly.

OpenStudy (btaylor):

Why?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Because it is the number that is the farthest away from the group of numbers

OpenStudy (btaylor):

exactly. That is your definition of an outlier.

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