Question

The data set gives the number of hours it took each of the 10 students in a cooking class to master a particular technique.

{5, 3, 5, 30, 4, 5, 4, 3, 4, 5}

Answer 1

what is the question?

Answer 2

The best measure of center for this data set is... and its value is...

Answer 3

well, we know not to use the mean for this because there is an outlier...

Answer 4

its the median i got that far i just dont know the value

Answer 5

okay, so rearrange the data in order

Answer 6

{3,3,4,4,4,5,5,5,5,30}

Answer 7

3,3,4,4,4,5,5,5,5,30

Answer 8

no find the middle of that data

Answer 9

oops now not no

Answer 10

4,5

Answer 11

okay, what is in the middle of 4 and 5?

Answer 12

thx

Answer 13

Is there any other measures of central tendency you could use, or is it just median or mean?