CAIE S1 2006 June — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2006
SessionJune
TopicMeasures of Location and Spread
TypeIdentify appropriate measure with outliers

1 The salaries, in thousands of dollars, of 11 people, chosen at random in a certain office, were found to be: $$40 , \quad 42 , \quad 45 , \quad 41 , \quad 352 , \quad 40 , \quad 50 , \quad 48 , \quad 51 , \quad 49 , \quad 47 .$$ Choose and calculate an appropriate measure of central tendency (mean, mode or median) to summarise these salaries. Explain briefly why the other measures are not suitable.