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Digital SAT Math Practice Question #1649

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A list of 7 home sale prices in a suburban neighborhood has a median of $340,000. If an eighth home selling for $2,800,000 (an extreme high outlier) is added to the data set, which of the following measures of center will increase the most?
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Outliers always pull the MEAN toward the outlier. The median is resistant.

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The mean incorporates all data values and is heavily pulled toward extreme outliers. The median is resistant to outliers because it only tracks the middle positional rank....

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