Identify the outlier from the given data set.

12 9 14 26 11 13 7 9 10 12 7

No outlier

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Solution

The correct option is D 26
An outlier is a value in a data set that is either too small or too big compared to the other values of the same data set.

Since most of the data points in the given data set lie between 7 and 14, the outlier is 26.

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10, 11, 12, 10, 15, 14, 15, 13, 12, x, 9, 7

15

x

40

5, 3, 10, 20, 25, 11, 13, 7, 12, 31, 19, 10, 12, 17, 18, 11, 32, 17, 16, 2, 7, 9, 7, 8,

3, 5, 12, 15, 18, 3, 12, 14, 2, 9, 6, 15, 15, 7, 6, 12

14

26

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