Question

The following dataset represents the number of times students have been late to their math class.0,0,1,0,0,2,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,3,0,0,2Suppose that the last value, 2, was mistakenly recorded as 20. What measure(s) of the typical value in a dataset would beaffected by this error? Select all that apply.

Answer 1

we have that

the mean would increase

Verify the median

we have

0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 2

originally the median is

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 3

the median is 0

the new set of the data

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 3 20

the median is 0

answer is

the mean would increase