Choose the best answer to the following question. Explain your reasoning One hundred students take a chemistry
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Choose the best answer to the following question. Explain your reasoning One hundred students take a chemistry exam. All but two of the students score between 55 and 76 points, but one student gets a 29 and one student gets a 98. What do the scores 29 and 98 represent? Choose the correct answer below.
A. They represent outliers. One is much lower than most of the values, and one is much higher than most of the values.
B. They represent skewed scores. The two scores increase the variation of the distribution. C. They represent skewed scores. One causes the distribution to spread to the left, and one causes the distribution to spread to the right.
D. They represent outliers. These values will change the mean, median, and mode of the data set.
E. They represent mean scores. They are the lower and higher averages, respectively.
F. They represent mean scores. They are computed by adding the exam scores and then dividing by the number of exams.
A Survey of Mathematics with Applications
ISBN: 978-0134112107
10th edition
Authors: Allen R. Angel, Christine D. Abbott, Dennis Runde