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Chapter 3, Problem 25E
Mistake A clerk entering salary data into a company spreadsheet accidentally put an extra “0” in the boss’s salary, listing it as $2,000,000 instead of $200,000. Explain how this error will affect these summary statistics for the company payroll:
- a) measures of center:
median andmean - b) measures of spread:
range , IQR, and standard deviation
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