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I think it means that our data includes outliers.

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Q: When the median and mean are substantially different what does that tell you about the data?
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How will adding the value 200 affect the mean and median of the data set 10 15 17 17 19 20?

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Explain why the mean does not best represent the data?

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When a low outlier is take out how will the mean median and mode change?

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Can ypu find the mean and median with data from a histogram?

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Should The mean or median be used in ordinal data?

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Can the mean be equal to the median in a data set consisting of 1000 values that are all different?

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Are the mean median and mode always numbers from a list of data?

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What is mean and median?

mean~ all the numbers in the data added together divided by the number of data. The mean is the same as the average. median~ the exact middle of the set of data. Example: 1,1,2,2, the median is 1.5 mean- the average median- the middle number in a set of numbers in a group.Example of Median-1,3,5,7,9,4,5 (put them in order and list them from least to greatest)1,3,4,5,5,7,9the median is 5!


What is median mean?

mean~ all the numbers in the data added together divided by the number of data. The mean is the same as the average. median~ the exact middle of the set of data. Example: 1,1,2,2, the median is 1.5 mean- the average median- the middle number in a set of numbers in a group.Example of Median-1,3,5,7,9,4,5 (put them in order and list them from least to greatest)1,3,4,5,5,7,9the median is 5!