Mistake a clerk entering salary data into a company


Question: Mistake. A clerk entering salary data into a company spreadsheet accidentally put an extra "0" in the boss's salary, listing it as $2,000,000 instead of $200,000. Explain how this error will affect these summary statistics for the company payroll:

a) measures of center: median and mean.

b) measures of spread: range, IQR, and standard deviation.

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