Below is a histogram of car prices on a used-car lot. An advertisement for the lot says the average price of a car for sale is $12,000. Could the advertisement be true? Why or why not?

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The Answer is Yes, the advertisement could be True. The presence of a car or cars with a sale price of $200 (the outlier(s) on the histogram) could lower the mean sale price to $12,000.

Below Is a Histogram of Car Prices on a Used-Car