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go.lag · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Jack is a handsome and extremely charming fellow who is currently dating four women, but now must choose one. Alas, Jack is somewhat shallow and eccentric. He has decided to choose the woman whose median cost on a date is the lowest. The dollar amounts of the five dates with each woman are given below. Which of the women should Jack choose?

a. Barbie: 10, 11, 17, 18, and 20.
b. Sandy: 20, 40, 70, 111, and 200.
c. Anna: 102, 111, 312, 514, and 813.
d. Bambi: 4, 8, 12, 13, and 500.

Question 2

A researcher measures the number of times each of six rats has to run a maze before it masters the maze. The number of times recorded for each rat is 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 7. In this example, the ____.

a. mean is smaller than the median
b. median is larger than the mode
c. mean is larger than the range
d. mode is larger than the range