Below Is the Five-Number Summary of Salaries (In $) for a Sample

question 8

Essay

Below is the five-number summary of salaries (in $) for a sample of marketing managers.
a. Would you expect the mean salary for this sample of marketing managers to be higher or lower than the median? Explain.
b. Which would be a more appropriate measure of central tendency for these data, the mean or median? Explain.
c. Calculate the range.
d. Calculate the IQR.

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