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Introducing Outliers
An outlier is a number that is significantly smaller or significantly larger than the rest of the numbers in the data set. Devise a data set that has an outlier.
How is the mean, median, and mode affected in a data set when you introduce an outlier? Explain your reasoning.
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Basketball Statistics
This lesson plan investigates changes in measures of center in a distribution of the heights of basketball players.
 Submit your idea for an investigation to InterMath.
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