Question: Hello can you please help me with some questions from my introductory stats class? I think I understand but I want to double check. I

Hello can you please help me with some questions from my introductory stats class? I think I understand but I want to double check. I bolded what I think is correct. Can you let me know if I'm correct if not please correct me and tell me why I'm wrong?

- If one observation is extremely large compared to other observations of the variable, which of the following statistics may be influenced the most?

Pick one correct answer: minimum, mode, median, mean

I think this one is mean

- Here is a list of 7 numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6. The total sum of the list of numbers is 26. What is the median?

Pick on correct answer: 6, 3.7, 5, 4

I think this one is 4 since it is an odd number you select what is in the middle correct?

-Variance is ______.

Pick on answer you think is correct:

*an average of the differences between observations and the median

*a sum of the differences between observations and the mean

*an average of the squared differences between observations and the mean

*an average of the squared differences between observations and the mode

This one i do not know or understand

-Variance is a measure of central tendency : True or False

I think this one is False

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