Reference no: EM132848225
Case 1: Teacher SalariesThe following data from several years ago represent annual salaries (in dollars) from a school district in Greenwood, South Carolina.
16,600 19,200 18,300 17,500 14,300 17,500
18,000 16,600 19,200 21,560 16,600 7,500
17,000 18,300 19,100
Required Tasks to be solved:
1. First, assume you work for the school board in Greenwood and do not wish to raise taxes to increase salaries. Compute the mean, median, and mode, and decide which one would best support your position to not raise salaries.
2. Second, assume you work for the teachers' union and want a raise for the teachers. Use the best measure of central tendency to support your position.
3. Explain how outliers can be used to support one or the other position.
4. Which measure of central tendency can be misleading when a data set contains outliers? Why? And please Explain with your own words the effect of outlier in this data set.
5. When you are comparing the measures of central tendency, does the distribution display any skewness? Explain which shape and why?