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A veterinarian office conducted a survey of the weight of dogs that came in for physicals. 55, 37, 8, 50, 60, 50, 48 Find the outlier:​

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the answer is 8 because when you plot the data it is the one really far away that skews the data

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Answer:

8

Explanation:

The outlier is the puece of data that is very different from the rest. If all of the numbers in this data were to be put on some sort of visualization, most of the numbers would be in a clump, while the 8 would be far from the clump.

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