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Find an outlier for the data set below:

{83, 73, 83, 59, 24}

Choices:
A. 83
B. 24
C. 59
D. 73

Answer :

Answer:
24

Explanation:
An outlier is defined as a data value that is much smaller or much larger than the other data values in a data set.

Now, for the given data set we have:
83, 73, 83, 59 and 24

First, we will sort the data:
24 , 59 , 73 , 83 , 83

We can note that 59, 73 and 83 are somewhat close values.
24 is much less than the other data values in the set.

this means that 24 is the outlier in this data set

Hope this helps :)

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