Question

By how much does the outlier in the following data set increase the range of the data set?

{38, 58, 81, 66, 42, 43, 40, 81, 73, 47, 56, 85, 256}

218


171


47


256

Answer 1

171

Explanation:

Range without outlier = 85 maximum - 38 minimum = 47

Range with outlier = 256-38 = 218

increase = 218-47 = 171