Question

The ages of people visiting a senior center one afternoon are recorded in the line plot.

A line plot titled Ages At Senior Center. The horizontal line is numbered in units of 5 from 40 to 95. There is one dot above 45 and 80. There are two dots above 70 and 85. There are three dots above 75.

Does the data contain an outlier? If so, explain its meaning in this situation.

No, there is no outlier. This means that the people were all the same age.
No, there is no outlier. This means that the people are all around the mean age.
Yes, there is an outlier of 45. This means that the average person at the center is 45 years old.
Yes, there is an outlier of 45. This means that one person's age was 45, which is 25 years younger than the next closest age.

Answer 1

No, there is no outlier. This means that the data does not have any unusually low or high values compared to the rest of the ages recorded in the line plot. The ages of the people visiting the senior center seem to be relatively clustered around the central values, and there are no extreme values that can be considered outliers.

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