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A median will distort an average that has one or more extreme values? true or false
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A median will distort an average that has one or more extreme values? true or false

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Answer:false

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False. A median is the middle term of all the data arranged from least to greatest. If the data have outliers or extreme values, the median which is at the center of distribution would not give much alteration to the mean. It would be the outliers. 
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