Question

For which data set is the mean most likely to be misleading?

A data set shows the number of letters in various mailboxes: 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9

A data set shows the number of letters in various mailboxes: 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 8, 9, 9, ten, ten

A data set shows the number of letters in various mailboxes: 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5

A data set shows the number of letters in various mailboxes: 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 8, twenty-seven, forty-five

Answer 1

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Answer 2

So when you find the mean, your trying to see GENERALLY what approximately how many letters most people have. Because the final set of data has two massive outliers, 27 and 45, if you calculate the mean without taking that into account, it is misleading and will be skewed to a higher value than what the majority of people are dealing with.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The last set, as I mentioned, has the massive outliers so it is the one for which the mean is misleading.