The Lee Family Is Looking to Buy a House in One

question 106

Multiple Choice

The Lee family is looking to buy a house in one of two suburban areas just outside a major city, and air quality is a top priority for them.One suburb advertises the use of hybrid cars and solar panels, while the other focuses on its convenient bus routes and availability of Hummer dealerships.Is the mean or median the better measure to use for deciding which area has better air quality? (Hint: These populations are skewed.)

• A) median, because it is less biased by skewness being dependent on the middle score
• B) mean, because it is always the best measure of central tendency in any population
• C) median, because it is never affected by outliers
• D) mean, because it represents the balance of the distribution

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