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How do outliers affect a mean in data? Explain your answer.
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How do outliers affect a mean in data? Explain your answer.

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They can make it wrong because they can change the data as a whole. If you had data which was 1,1,1,1,5 the 5 would be wrong and would make the average wrong if it was a one off
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