statistics homework

Question

Given that Florida's 2015-16 college tuition and fees dataset includes the very expensive Aviation College, how would you expect the mean and median of the dataset to compare? It is not necessary to perform computations to answer this question. It is also not necessary for you to know the specific value of the mean to answer this question. Choose one:

(A)The median would be larger than the mean.

(B)The mean would be larger than the median.   

(C) The median and the mean would be approximately equal.

Answer 1

The mean is susceptible to outliers but the median is not.

So since one of the data points (Aviation College) has a much higher tuition than most others, the mean would be affected by this value (it would increase) and the median would not.

(B) The mean would be larger than the median.