When is an outlier still an outlier?
In a set of data, can the outlier also be the mode or does a number stop being an outlier if it occurs often enough to be a mode?
What other mathematical aspects of this caught your attention?
What do you wonder about the situation?
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- Understand the story, the quantities, and the relationships in the problem.
- Understand what the problem is asking and what the answer will look like.
Have some ideas to begin to solve the problem.
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