A clerk entering salary data into a company spreadsheet accidentally put an extra 0 in the boss's

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A clerk entering salary data into a company spreadsheet accidentally put an extra "0" in the boss's salary, listing it as $2,000,000 instead of $200,000. Explain how this error will affect these summary statistics for the company payroll:
a) Measures of center: median and mean.
b) Measures of spread: range, IQR, and standard deviation.
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Stats Data and Models

ISBN: 978-0321986498

4th edition

Authors: Richard D. De Veaux, Paul D. Velleman, David E. Bock

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