The amount of money that college students spend on rent each month is usually between $300 and $600 however there are a few students who spend $1,300 what measure of spread would be most appropriate to measure the amount of money that college students spend on rent per month

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Kailey Hunt

9 February, 07:27

The amount of money that college students spend on rent each month is usually between $300 and $600 however there are a few students who spend $1,300 what measure of spread would be most appropriate to measure the amount of money that college students spend on rent per month

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Andres Anderson · Answer 1

This data is extremely skewed because most of the data lies between $300 and $600 but there are large outliers of around $1300. In order to reflect accurately what most students spend, we need a resistant measure of centre because the data is so skewed.

Therefore, we select median as the best measure of the amount of money college students spend on rent per month.