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22.6 is an outlier for which of the following sets of data?

1. 22.6, 21.5, 23.7, 22.6, 28.9, 22.6, 20.9

2. 2.4, 5.3, 3.5, 22.6, 1.8, 2.1, 4.6, 1.9

3. 20.5, 20.8, 21.6, 22.6, 23.7, 24.5, 25.1

4. 13.6, 31.7, 25.8, 22.6, 18.9, 21.6, 30.5

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Step-by-step explanation: B

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22.6 is an outlier for the second data set. The reason for this is that 22.6 is nowhere near the rest of the data points. Outliers are numbers that are either a lot bigger or a lot smaller than the rest of the other numbers in the set. In this case, 22.6 is a lot bigger.
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