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https://learn.hawkeslearning.com/Portal/Lesson/lesson certify! O Save & End Certify Lesson: 3.1 Measures of Center Question 3 of 6, Step 1 of 1 For the following type of data set would you be more interested in looking at the mean, median, or mode? State your reasoning. 1/10 Correct The salary of players on a professional baseball team Answer First select the correct measure of center and then select the justfication for your choide Correct measure of center O mean median mode Justification The salaries of baseball players are qualitative data O The salaries of baseball players are quantitative data with outliers o The salaries of baseball olayers are quantitative data with no outliers ©2017 Hides to search

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Ans. Median

Justification:

Here the data is quantitative in nature (Salary of players are numbers),

but the data would contain some outliers(extreme observations, ie players with very high/low salary),

which are not representative of the data.

So, a robust estimator like Median is more appropriate.

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