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Question

. A company collected funds for charity from employees. The amount donated by some employees on the first day is as follows: $10, $20, $15, $100, $10, $15, $10 Which measure of central tendency best represents the data? Justify your selection and then find the measure of central tendency. (SHOW WORK)

Answer 1

Because of the outlier $100 donation, the mean will be effected and provide an answer that does NOT reprepresent the average gift amount.

The mode of $10 is better than the mean, but does not reflect the gifts that were more than $10.

Given the above discrepancies for the mean and mode, the median is the best representation.

$10 $10 $10 $15 $15 $20 $100

The median is $15 and indicates that there were an equal number of gifts less than $15 (3) and greater than $15 (3).