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In a previous lab, you recorded the range of income. You observed that the minimum household income is 4, and the maximum is 1,620,560. 1. Does this make sense to you

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YES. It is income; the figures make sense.

Step-by-step explanation:

RANGE is the distance or difference between the highest value and the lowest value.

In this case, the variable is Household Income and the minimum value for the dataset is 4 while the maximum value is 1,620,560.

The question says: "Does this make sense to you?"

YES it does. It simply means that out of all the observed households, one household had a total income of 4 units (e.g. dollars) within the time period e.g. a day, a week, or a year.

On the other extreme, another household had approximately 1.6 million units of income in the same time frame.

This goes to show a wide income parity among the subjects observed in this experiment. Since 4 is the lowest value in the dataset, it shouldn't be shocking. You only need to exercise surprise if 4 is the mean or median value of the data set!

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