Fun quiz questions, to make you think?

Question

1. A small object was weighed on the same scale separately by nine students in a science class. The weights (in grams) recorded by each student are shown below.

6.2

6.0

6.0

15.3

6.1

6.3

6.2

6.15

6.2

The students want to determine as accurately as they can the actual weight of this

object. What would you recommend they do?

Answer 1

first throw out the outlier (15.3) since it could most likely be attributed to user error then average the rest.

Answer 2

d

Answer 3

I'm liking D.

the 15 is obviously bogus based on all the other data, so it's right to throw it out.

Just because 6.2 is most common doesn't make it right.

More decimals on one measurement doesn't make it right.

Answer 4

average it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

take out the 15.3 since it is probably human error and average the rest of them

so (D)