Question

This plot shows the number of cakes sold each day in aunt Alice’s cake shop last month.

What number of cakes sold is an outlier?

Answer 1

9- it’s the furthest from the cluster or common area of plots

Answer 2

Answer: 9

Explanation:

An outlier is an observation point in any data plot that appears farthest from the other data observations.

In the given data plot, the plot shows the number of cakes sold each day in aunt Alice’s cake shop last month.

Here, we have one observation point that appearing farthest from all the other observation points i.e. point at 9.

Therefore the number of cakes sold is an outlier = 9