Question

The data set below represents the number of televisions repaired in a service shop over an 11-week period. 1, 48, 50, 25, 21, 19, 26, 30, 18, 17, 3 The outlier of the data set is

Answer 1

The outlier of the data set is

50

Explanation:

Answer 2

50

Explanation:

The given data set is:

1, 48, 50, 25, 21, 19, 26, 30, 18, 17, 3

Arranging the given data set in ascending order, we have

1, 3,17, 18, 19, 21, 25, 26, 30, 48, 50

Now, by the definition of Outlier that is it is the observation point which is quite different from the rest of the given data values, thus 1, 3, 48 and 50 are outliers.

But the difference of an outlier 50 is much more than the difference of other outliers with a difference of 20, hence 50 is an outlier of the above data set.