A finance professor has just given a midterm examination in her corporate finance course. In particular, she
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A finance professor has just given a midterm examination in her corporate finance course. In particular, she is interested in learning how her class of 100 students performed on this exam. The 100 exam scores are given in the file P2_5.XLS.
a. What are the mean and median scores (out of 100 possible points) on this exam?
b. Explain why the mean and median values are different in this case.
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