Question

Game Free Throws Made
1 4
2 14
3 5
4 7
5 19
6 15
7 6
What value, the mean or median, best describes the shape of the data set that contains the number of
free throws made by the basketball team? Choose 1 for mean and 2 for median.

Answer 1

2

The data (4,5,6,7,14,15,19) is right-skewed (a few large values raise the mean = 10), while the median = 7 is resistant to those high values, so the median best describes the center.