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if the outleir was removed from the data set 22 32 40 41 57 62 68 752 would the mean increase or decrease

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First, we will calculate the mean with the outlier


\operatorname{mean}=(22+32+40+41+57+62+68+752)/(8)=134.25

then the mean without the outlier


\operatorname{mean}=(22+32+40+41+57+62+68)/(7)=46

As we can see the mean will decrease if the outlier was removed from the data set

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