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Opal is collecting data on water levels in different parts of town. She notices that her sample data has a low-value outlier. Which statement must be true?

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She wouldn't count the outlier if she was doing the median. I would chose the mean.
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Answer:

Removing the outlier will decrease the spread of the graph of the data set.

Explanation

removing the outliers takes away the extremes

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