Question

A school's fall fundraiser raised money for new laptops and tablets for the school. The totals for the 7th-grade homerooms are shown in the table below. The mean of the data is $685.42 and the median is $635.00. Which measure, the mean or the median, is a better measure of the central tendency of the data, and why?

Answer 1

It is The median, because there is an outlier that is significantly higher than the rest of the data, and it raises the mean above the center of the data, making the mean a poor choice, and the median a better choice

Step-by-step explanation:

1575 is the outlier causing the median to be the best