2. Ten individuals were sampled regarding their age, yielding the following results: 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 32, 33, 86. The sum of these 10 numbers is 350. Given this information, answer the following questions:
a. What is the mode of the distribution?
b. What is the median of the distribution?
c. What is the mean of the distribution?
d. Which of the 10 values, if any, would you consider an outlier?
e. How does the outlier influence the calculation of each measure of central tendency?
f. Which measure of central tendency best represents the typical age of those in the distribution?
g. What can you surmise about the limitations of measures of central tendency based on this exercise?
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