The salaries of seven different people working at the same company are shown below.

$30,000

$35,000

$40,000

$45,000

$55,000

$55,000

$1,140,000

Determine the mean salary.

Which measure of center best represents the data set? Explain why.

Given the salaries of the employees working for the same company:

$30,000

$35,000

$40,000

$45,000

$55,000

$55,000

$1,140,000

The mean will be given by:

($30,000 + $35,000 + $40,000 + $45,000 + $55,000 + $55,000 + $1,140,000) / 7

=1,400,000/7

=200,000

b]The measure of center that best describes the data set is the median, this is because if we use the mean, the data distribution will be skewed to the left hence it was give us the best description of the measure of the center.