You have just completed the first part of this lab and have five time values for a particular height: 1.8, 1.7, 1.9, 0.8, and 1.9 seconds. a) Give one quantitative reason why you think that 0.8 sec is or is not consistent with the other measurements.

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Nicolas Anderson

8 November, 01:11

You have just completed the first part of this lab and have five time values for a particular height: 1.8, 1.7, 1.9, 0.8, and 1.9 seconds. a) Give one quantitative reason why you think that 0.8 sec is or is not consistent with the other measurements.

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David Decker · Answer 1

Answer: because 1.8 is an outlier.

Explanation: it can been seen that from the data given to us, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.9 are all close to each other with a difference of 0.2 or 0.1.

By considering 0.8, this value (0.8) is at a very far distance away from other observational data with a difference of at least 0.9.

This henceforth makes 0.8 an outlier (a data which is at a far distance away from other observational data)