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Given the box plot, will the mean or the median provide a better description of the center? box plot with min at 6, Q1 at 7.5, median at 8, Q3 at 23, max at 32.5

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The median because it gives the middle of a group of data/numbers.
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Answer:

Median will provide a better description of the center.

Explanation:

We know that in statistics, median is a central tendency of a data and always exist in the middle of the data set i.e. it occupy the central position in the data.

Hence, in the given box plot with:

Min at 6, Q1 at 7.5, Median at 8, Q3 at 23, Max at 32.5.

The median will describe the center of the data.

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