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A Clerk Entering Salary Data into a Company Spreadsheet Accidentally

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A clerk entering salary data into a company spreadsheet accidentally omitted a "0" in the CEO's salary,listing it as $155,000 instead of $1,550,000.Explain how this error will affect these summary statistics for the company payroll: a)measures of centre: median and mean; and b)measures of spread: range,IQR,and standard deviation.


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