The data set below gives the number of points Micah scored during each basketball game this season. (5, 12, 27, 44, 30, 9, 18, 21, 26, 21, 6) Is there an outlier? If so, what is it?
Outliers are values that seems to be far greater and lower than the rest of the data
From the given data we can see that 44 is much greater than the rest of the data making it an outlier in the data set
The removal or addition of the value when calculating the mean will make a huge difference in the resulting mean of the data. That's why they are called an outlier
