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Mr. Anderson worked with the following number of students each year.


42 in 2023-2024
256 in 2022-2023
195 in 2021-2022
228 in 2020-2021
174 in 2019-2020
136 in 2018-2019
216 in 2017-2018
204 in 2016-2017
151 in 2015-2016


What would we call 42 in this situation?


A.
Mean Absolute Deviation

B.
Mode

C.
Outlier

D.
Range

User ThomasR
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C. The outlier.

Notice how 42 is a much smaller number than 256,195,174, etc? the number that is much bigger or smaller from the other numbers is called an outlier.
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