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All of the following statistical measures of the data above have the same value EXCEPT for


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Okay sy math people Here we go Another one for

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you on this graph with all the funky lawn mowing

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money thing on it All right all the following statistical

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measures of the data have the same value except what

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Mmm Are luckily this question isn't his painful as an

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mmr booster shot ever had one of those yet you're

00:24

bruised for a week Alright to analyze the data from

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the bar graph Well first write it in ascending order

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So we got our slacker shane here which were start

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but it's like fifty sixty eighty ninety nine one hundred

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one hundred ten twenty and forty that's it's everyone Well

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the median of the data is the middle number while

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we have ten data points so there isn't a single

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middle number there too and the median is the average

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of these two middle number's Luckily both middle number's air

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ninety So the median is ninety Yeah that was anti

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climactic Well the mean of the data is the average

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which we calculate by adding everything up and then dividing

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by the number of data points So we add all

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these Numbers up then divide by 10 and we get

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an average of ninety for right nine forty over ten

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Well the media doesn't mean i don't have the same

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value So one of these two is the exception will

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calculate the mode and see if it's ninety or ninety

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For whichever one it's not while that's the winner or

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loser the mode of the data is the value that

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repeats most frequently well ninety appears three times more than

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any other value so the mode is ninety The media

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in the mod have the same value so the exception

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is the mean We also see that the range of

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difference between largest and smalls values is also magically ninety

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which seals the deal So the answer is b mean 00:01:36.74 --> [endTime] we are shmoop

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