CAIE S1 2019 November — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2019
SessionNovember
TopicMeasures of Location and Spread
TypeIdentify appropriate measure with outliers

1 Twelve tourists were asked to estimate the height, in metres, of a new building. Their estimates were as follows. $$\begin{array} { l l l l l l l l l l l l } 50 & 45 & 62 & 30 & 40 & 55 & 110 & 38 & 52 & 60 & 55 & 40 \end{array}$$
  1. Find the median and the interquartile range for the data.
  2. Give a disadvantage of using the mean as a measure of the central tendency in this case.