Pathways to Math Literacy with 18 Week ALEKS Access Card
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ISBN: 9781259278723
Author: David Sobecki Professor, Brian A. Mercer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 4.1, Problem 14GA
As our friend Mr. Twain pointed out over 100 years ago, statistics can be used to mislead if you’re not careful about interpreting them. The online resources for Lesson 4-1 contain an entire supplemental section on ways that statistics can be misused, either intentionally or not. For now, we’ll look at one example that’s particularly relevant to the topic of this lesson.
In promotional materials, a small business claimed that their average employee makes over $150,000 per year. The table shows the annual salary for all ten employees.
| Employee | Salary |
|---|---|
| William | $1,200,000 |
| Andrew | $28,000 |
| Marie | $42,000 |
| Miguel | $55,000 |
| Dwight | $60,000 |
| Elena | $72,000 |
| Rachel | $28,000 |
| Kevin | $61,500 |
| Jamaal | $40,000 |
| Dean | $52,000 |
We studied three measures of average in Lesson 1-10. Which of those do you think would provide the most honest measure of average for this company’s salaries?
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