Question

Find the outlier in the data: 32, 40, 34, 31, 20, 36, 40, 31. How does the outlier affect the mean?

Answer 1

The outlier is 20

it affect the mean because

1)32 +40+34+ 31 +20+ 36 +40+31=264

2) 264 divided by 8= 33

so it gives you an odd number