Jelance and his 3 friends love to play basketball. One day they decided to do a shooting competition for fun. The lowest scorer will buy pizza. In 10 minutes, his friends managed to get 14, 16 and 18 points while Jelance topped them all with a score of 22 points. In a 30 second extension, Jelance managed to increase his final score to 26 points. How will increasing Jelance's score affects the mean and median scores? Choices:

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Jelance and his 3 friends love to play basketball. One day they decided to do a shooting competition for fun. The lowest scorer will buy pizza. In 10 minutes, his friends managed to get 14, 16 and 18 points while Jelance topped them all with a score of 22 points. In a 30 second extension, Jelance managed to increase his final score to 26 points. How will increasing Jelance's score affects the mean and median scores? Choices:

A. Both mean and median will increase
B. The median will increase and the mean will stay the same
C. The mean will increase and the median will stay the same.
D. The mean will increase while the median will decrease

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Answer 1

oobleck answered
2 years ago

since a score increased, the mean will also increase (since it involves the sum of all the scores)

since only the highest score changed, the median will not change (since it is just the middle value)