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Find the outlier in the following set of data. 4.7, 3.4, 4.2, 0.5, 4.8, 5.6, 5.4, 5.9

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The outlier is 0.5. It is clearly not in the same 'range' of data as the rest.
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0.5 because it is the number that is the furthest away from any other number. Outliers are numbers that don't correlate with the rest of the data.
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