On Monday, a Class of Students Took a Big Test

question 3

Short Answer

On Monday, a class of students took a big test, and the highest score was 92. The next day,
a student who had been absent made up the test, scoring 100. Indicate whether adding that
student's score to the rest of the data made each of these summary statistics increase, decrease, or stay about the same:
a. mean
b. median
c. range d. IQR
e. standard deviation

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