Question

This dot plot shows the number of cakes sold each day in Alice's cake shop last month. What number of cakes sold is a outlier

Answer 1

9

Explanation:

What is an outlier?

• An outlier is a statistical data point that is very different from the rest of the data points

What is the outlier in this situation?

• As we can see, 9 is the outlier because most of the data points range from 0-6. However, 9 is pretty far and different from the rest of the data points.