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The following dataset represents the dollar amounts of donations collected at the entrance to a free museum during onehour:5, 10,5,5, 15, 1, 10, 10,5,600,5Is the mean a reasonably good measure of central tendency for this dataset? What if the outlier were removed fromconsideration?

The following dataset represents the dollar amounts of donations collected at the-example-1
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Given the data set :

5, 10, 5, 5, 15, 1, 10, 10,5, 600, 5

As seen most of th data is between 1 and 15 except one data is 600

so, 600 represents an outlier for the data

so, the answer is option 4

The following dataset represents the dollar amounts of donations collected at the-example-1
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