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Most of the students' points in the graph fall on a

line. One point does not fall on a line and is very
much higher than the line. How would this affect
the results?

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The much higher poing is an outlier and it makes the result skewed

How would the much higher poing affect the result?

From the question, we have the following parameters that can be used in our computation:

The graph

When most of students' points in a graph are on a line, it shows a correlation among their data.

However, the presence of a single point that is much higher from this line shows there is an outlier in the data values

Outliers can heavily impact the interpretation of results and they may skew the calculated line of best fit or the histogram of the data values

Most of the students' points in the graph fall on a line. One point does not fall-example-1
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