The World Malaria Report (2008)has Information on the Number of Reported

question 6

Multiple Choice

The World Malaria Report (2008) has information on the number of reported malaria cases from 2005 and 2006 for the 10 countries listed in West Africa.The data are presented in the table below. If the number of reported malaria cases in Sierra Leone were mistyped and reported as 1,160,666,what would happen to the mean and median?

• A)Both would remain unchanged.
• B)The mean would change,but the median would stay the same.
• C)The mean and median would change.
• D)You cannot tell without doing the actual calculation.

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