Lesson: Finding the Outliers of a Data Set

In this lesson, we will learn how to find the outliers of a data set and determine a value that is far from the other values in the set.

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Q1:

The bar graph shows the prices of six different jackets. Which price is an outlier?

Q2:

Which of the following sets of data has an interquartile range of 7 and two outliers?

Q3:

The table shows the number of speakers of some non-English languages in the US. Identify all possible outliers.

Language	Bengali	Thai	Persian	Vietnamese	Spanish	Nepali	German	Hebrew
Number of Speakers	800 000	163 200	407 600	1 410 000	37 580 000	185 145	1 080 000	216 300

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