In 1994, major league baseball players went on stribe. At the lime, the average salary was
$1,049,589
, and the median salary was
$337,500
. If you were representing the owners, which summary would you use to convince the public that a strike was not needed? If you were a player, which would you use? Witry was there such a large discrepancy between the mean and median salaries? Explain
Select the correct answers below.
If you were representing the owners, you would use the
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to convince the putbic that a stike was not needed. If you were a player, you would use the
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to convince the public that a stike was needed. The average and median salaries differ so greatly because the mean is resistant to outliers, but the median is not
the mean is resistant to outiers, but the median is not
the distribution of sataries is stewed right
the distribution of salaries is skewed left
The distribution of salaries is symmetric.