Suppose We Have a Data Set of the Number of Car

question 41

Multiple Choice

Suppose we have a data set of the number of car accidents per day in Los Angeles during the year 2013. The data was input into a spreadsheet manually by an assistant at the Department of Transportation. For one day in July 2013, he input that there were 14 car accidents; but there were actually 140 that day. How will this error affect the measures of center for this data?

• A)The mean and the median will be lower than they should be.
• B)The mean and the median will not be affected by this error.
• C)The mean will be lower than it should be, but the median will not be affected.
• D)The median will be lower than it should be, but the mean will not be affected.

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