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Exercise 15

Avg difficulty 2.5

For each of the following distributions, would you expect that the mean is less than the median, greater than the median, or approximately equal to the median? Explain your reasoning.

  1. Household incomes in the US

  2. Weights of newborn babies born at term

  3. The number of children in a household in the US

  4. Medical costs for all adults

  5. Medical costs for adults in the US older than 65

Lee et al., Math in Society, §3.3 Summary Statistics: Measures of Center, Exercise 15

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