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Finding an outlier with the IQR rule

Middle school · ●●○○○ 20 pts

For the data set 15,17,19,16,14,5815, 17, 19, 16, 14, 58, find the outlier using the quartiles (the median of each half of the data) and the rule that a value is an outlier if it lies below Q1−1.5⋅IQRQ_1-1.5\cdot IQR or above Q3+1.5⋅IQRQ_3+1.5\cdot IQR.

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