Mean, Median, Mode & Range Examples Page 2

These are the top ten final scores for the combined results of the Ladies' Figure Skating event at the 2010 Winter Olympics:

Yu-Na Kim of South Korea shattered the world record with a score 18 points higher than the previous record. How would the mean and median of this group change if we left out her score?

The current median of the group is:

The current mean is:

If we eliminate Yu-Na's score, the median would be:

, or the middle number in the data set.

And the mean would be:

By removing her score, the median dropped by less than one point, but the mean dropped by more than 4 points. Yu-Na's extremely high score affected the mean much more than the median.