For Exercises 31–36, use the data from the indicated exercise, along with the indicated extreme, to show that the mean is more sensitive to extreme values than the median is. Do the following:

  1. Calculate the median of the data without the extreme value.
  2. Find the median of the data including the extreme value. Compare your answers from (a) and (b). Note that the median did not change as much as the mean did in Exercises 25–30.

Question 3.35

35. Data from Exercise 23.

3.1.35

(a) 1607 petit larceny cases (b) 1810.5 petit larceny cases