Which of the following statements about measures of the center of a distribution of data is true?
A)
Neither the mean nor the median is strongly affected by an outlier in the data.
B)
The mean is strongly affected by an outlier in the data, but the median is not.
C)
The median is strongly affected by an outlier in the data, but the mean is not.
D)
Both the mean and the median are strongly affected by an outlier in the data.

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The mean is strongly affected by an outlier in the data because it takes into account every value in the data set, while the median only considers the middle value(s) and is therefore less influenced by extreme values or outliers.

Which of the Following Statements About Measures of the Center