What is an outlier?
A number that is very different from the rest of the data set
Find the outlier in the data set:
71, 76, 73, 3, 67, 64
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1. Name the outlier.
2. Would you remove the outlier in this situation?
Laura tracks the number of hours she plays video games on the computer each night this week. Her results are: 2.5, 2.0, 1.0, 2.5, 2.0, 15, 3.5
1. 15
2. No, she just chose to play more on Saturday. The outlier still make sense to the data set.
For every soccer practice, Cam keeps track of the number of goals he makes in ten attempts. In the last 10 practices, he made the following number of goals:
2, 6, 8, 7, 9, 8, 6, 8
1. How does the mean change if Cam keeps in the outlier vs if Cam removes the outlier.
1. If he keeps the outlier in his mean (average) is lower.
The following times, in seconds, were recorded for a mouse to run through a maze.
44, 12, 10, 11, 12, 13, 9
1. What is the outlier?
2. Should the outlier be removed when calculating?
1. 44
2. Yes, it does not make sense for the mouse to gain so much speed in one round.