Question

Which measure of center would be BEST to use for the following set of data?

24, 30, 19, 26, 27, 78, 31, 22

Answer 1

Median

Which is 26.5

Explanation:

19, 22, 24, 26, 27, 30, 31 ,78

78 is an outlier which makes mean a wrong estimate of the average.

Mode is not available

So the best option is Median

Median is (26+27)/2 = 26.5

Answer 2

Median

Explanation:

This is because if you used the mean it would be higher than the median because there is an outlier (78)

or

Because the data is skewed right, the mean would be affected