The following data represent salaries (in dollars) from a school district in Greenwood, South Carolina.

1. First, assume you work for the school board in Greenwood and do not wish to raise taxes to increase salaries. Compute the mean, median, and mode, and decide which one would best support your position to not raise salaries.
2. Second, assume you work for the teachers' union and want a raise for the teachers. Use the best measure of central tendency to support your position.
3. Explain how outliers can be used to support one or the other position.
4. If the salaries represented every teacher in the school district, would the averages be parameters or statistics?
5. Which measure of central tendency can be misleading when a data set contains outliers?
6. When you are comparing the measures of central tendency, does the distribution display any skewness? Explain.

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50,000 51,000 51,000 52,500 54,300 57,500 58,000 56,600 59,200 61,560 56,400 147,000