Outliers and Shape of Data

Find the outlier in the set of data:
4, 11.6, 50, 23, 20.1, 19, 29, 12.7, 8, 23, 57.5

• 57.5
• 50, 57.5
• 4, 50, 57.5

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Your math grades are 90, 85, 0, 90, 80, 100, and 90.  Which grade is the outlier?

• 90
• 0

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Identify the outlier for the given data?
23, 34, 27, 7, 30, 26, 28, 31, 34

• 7
• 23
• 31
• 34

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What is the outlier in the following data?

11, 19, 17, 8, 37, 11, 19, 16, 22

• 37

• 8

• 11

• 22

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Which of the following numbers is the outlier?34, 75, 82, 95, 100, 100

• 75
• 34
• 95
• 100

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A value that is much higher or much lower than the other values in a set of data.

• Outlier
• Box Plot
• Range
• Histogram

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The prices at several different stores for a pair of shoes are shown below.
$78, $79, $81, $82, $83
Two days later, another store has the same shoes on sale for $65. How does the new price affect the data?

• Only the range was affected.
• The median increased, and the range increased.
• The mean increased, and the range increased.
• The mean decreased and the range increased.

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The data set below has an outlier of 42.
2, 5, 12, 15, 19, 4, 6, 11, 16, 18, 12, 12, 42
What effect does removing the outlier have on the distribution of the data?

• The mean will decrease
• The median will decrease
• The mean will increase
• The median will increase

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Gabriella’s quiz grades are shown below.
88, 92, 92, 96, 98
Gabriella scored a 20 on her sixth quiz. What effect does this score have?

• The low score causes the median to increase.
• The low score causes the median to decrease.
• The low score causes the mean to increase.
• The low score causes the mean to decrease.

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• the shapes of both plots are symmetrical
• the data spreads for both populations are the same
• Route 9 is skewed left
• Route 9 is skewed right

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