Question

(a) What is the general trend of the graph?

(b) What is the median of the data? Explain.
(c) What is the mean of the data? Round to the nearest hundredth and show your work.
(d) Would the mean or median be affected more with a data point of 20? Explain.

Answer 1

A) positive trend in graph
B) 5
To find median cout the number of terms then find the center. In the data set 4, 6, 9 six is the middle term. If the number of terms is even find the middle of the two center terms. In the data set 3, 5, 6, 78 five and six are the two center terms. The middle is 5.5 which is the median of the set.