Mr. Coulson counted the bolts in his hardware cabinet and made a line plot.
A line plot named
Jacob says that
1
1
8
inches is an outlier because it is the only length that does not have any dots. Is Jacob correct? Explain.
A.
Jacob is correct. All of the other data values have dots, so a data value without dots is different and is therefore an outlier.
B.
Jacob is not correct. An outlier is a data value that is very different than the other data values that have at least
1
dot.
C.
Jacob is not correct. An outlier can lie anywhere on the line plot, and it must have exactly
1
dot.
D.
Jacob is not correct. The outlier is
1
4
8
inches because the outlier is always the greatest data value.