For Exercises 69–73, refer to Table 9, which lists the top five mass market paperback fiction books for the week of July 1, 2014, as reported by the New York Times.
| Rank | Title | Author | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin | $7.83 |
| 2 | Takedown Twenty | Janet Evanovich | $7.64 |
| 3 | Inferno | Dan Brown | $8.48 |
| 4 | A Dance with Dragons | George R. R. Martin | $6.71 |
| 5 | The 9th Girl | Tami Hoag | $8.47 |
73. Explain whether it makes sense to find the mean or median of the variable author.
3.1.73
It does not make sense to find the mean and the median of the variable author because the variable author is a categorical variable.