Question 2 - A-Level Maths

Exam Board	CAIE
Module	S1 (Statistics 1)
Year	2022
Session	June
Topic	Measures of Location and Spread
Type	Identify appropriate measure with outliers

2 Twenty children were asked to estimate the height of a particular tree. Their estimates, in metres, were as follows.

4.1	4.2	4.4	4.5	4.6	4.8	5.0	5.2	5.3	5.4
5.5	5.8	6.0	6.2	6.3	6.4	6.6	6.8	6.9	19.4

Find the mean of the estimated heights.
Find the median of the estimated heights.
Give a reason why the median is likely to be more suitable than the mean as a measure of the central tendency for this information.