Question

The table below shows data from a survey about the amount of time, in hours, high school students spent reading and the amount of time spent watching videos each week (without reading):
Which response best describes outliers in these data sets? (2 points)
Reading has a suspected outlier in the 30-hour value.
Reading has a suspected outlier in the 30-hour value, and video has a possible outlier in the 15-hour value.
Neither data set has suspected outliers.
The range of data is too small to identify outliers.

Answer 1

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Reading:

3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 30

Video:

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7,   8,   8,   9, 15

       

Minimum  Reading: 3    Video: 1

1st quarterly  Reading: 4    Video: 3

Median    Reading: 6.5    Video: 6.5

3rd quarterly    Reading: 12   Video: 8

Maximum    Reading: 30    Video: 15

IQR     Reading: 8    Video: 5

Outliers           Reading: 30    Video: None

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