statistics homework

Question

The boxplots below show the distribution of Florida's 2015-16 college tuition and fees with and without the inclusion of Aviation College. 

 

When Aviation College is removed from the dataset (as displayed by the lower boxplot), and the mean tuition and fees are recalculated for the remaining Florida colleges for that year, how would the new mean (without Aviation College) compare to the old mean (with Aviation College)? Choose one response.

(A)The mean would not change when Aviation College is removed from the dataset.

(B)The mean would increase when Aviation College is removed from the dataset.   

(C) The mean would decrease when Aviation College is removed from the dataset.

Answer 1

Tonya

The mean (average) would decrease because you removed a large value from the data set. Make sense?

Jim