Question

The hourly salary of five workers are $6, $6, $8, $10, and $35.

Is the mean or median the best measure of center to summarize the salaries of the workers?

Answer 1

@EKKERKING

Answer 2

help

Answer 3

@Tamara7301

Answer 4

@mas6xavi

Answer 5

HELP

Answer 6

I THINK IT IS BOTH mean AND median

Answer 7

median

Answer 8

are you sure

Answer 9

i think hes right

Answer 10

A.
mean

B.
median

C.
Both mean and median summarize the data equally well.

Answer 11

Yes sure.. we use the mean only when the data is symmetrical

Answer 12

thanks

Answer 13

The problem is that there is a very different amount of 35$ which would give a really weird average. (mean)

35 + 10 + 8 + 6 + 6 = 65

65/5 = 13

13$ is higher than all but the 35$ salary.

Answer 14

in this question 35 is greater number so if we use mean... the result would be 13, which is no actual summary of data
in the other hand median will be 8 which actually represents and summarize data better

Answer 15

I'm so dumb I put the $ after the numbers :|

Answer 16

But w/e you get the idea

Answer 17

Yup 35 is called outlier in this case

Answer 18

Like mas6xavi said, an outlier will highly affect data so the median is a better source of average.

Answer 19

so the answer is median

Answer 20

That would be the best option yes

Answer 21

thanks and bye