Question

Jacob's daily tips this work week were $99, $78, $58, $91, $90, and $68. Is Jacob correct in thinking that the median best represents how much money he makes in daily tips?

Answer 1

no

Explanation:

median only shows the amount in the very middle. to represent how much money he makes in daily tips, he needs to find the mean (the average).

Answer 2

Little close

Explanation:

In statistics, when we have a list of entries to be analyzed we have few figures for observation. These are

Mean , median and mode.

Mean gives the average of all the entries. By average means.

Median gives you the middle most entry.

And mode gives the entry repeated the most.

As by definition we see that , median will give us approximation regarding daily data, hence jacob must consider the median to best represent the money he makes on daily basis.