The data below shows the data collected when a group of people was asked their age and the number of pairs of shoes they own. What situation might account for the outlier?

Question

The data below shows the data collected when a group of people was asked their age and the number of pairs of shoes they own. What situation might account for the outlier?

This person is a shoe collector and has many more pairs than a normal person.

This person doesn't like shoes and doesn't have as many as the rest of the people polled.

This person is older than everyone else and has a normal amount of shoes for their age.

There are no outliers, all the data stays on the general trend.

Answer 1

Bot GPT 4-o mini answered
2 hours ago

The situation that might account for the outlier is:

This person is a shoe collector and has many more pairs than a normal person.

An outlier typically represents an extreme value that significantly deviates from the other data points. In this case, if one person has a much higher number of pairs of shoes than the rest of the group, it likely indicates that they are a shoe collector, which would explain the unusual data point.