1. Look again at the cartoon by Gary Larson. Pat says, "The average American family has 1.5 children." Leslie says, "But there's no such thing as an average person, and there's no such thing as 1 ⁄2 of a child." Mediate the dispute between them.
2. A distribution can be perfectly symmetrical, but have different values for the mode and the median.
(a) Explain.
(b) Will the mean in this case equal the mode, the median, or something else?