Question

the following data set shows the number of books checked out from the library during the first two weeks of the month .36, 39, 40, 42, 45, 2, 38, 41, 37, 38, 35, 37, 35, 38

Answer 1

According to the given data set, we can observe that there's one day where people only checked out 2 books which is way too low compared to the other days, which represents an outlier.

Hence, the answer is 1) there is one outlier, indicating very few books were checked out on that day.