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Disadvantage to calculate mean?

A
Difficult to calculate
B
Difficult to understand
C
May be influenced by abnormal high or low values
D
None
High-Yield Explanation
Ans. is 'c' i.e., May be influenced by abnormal high or low values Advantage of mean It is easy to calculate and understand. Disadvantage of mean Sometimes it may be unduly influenced by abnormal values (either very high or very low) in the distribution. o It has seriously affected mean because the income of 6 people is very low than the calculated mean and income of one is very high than calculated mean. So, mean is not useful when the distribution of value is skewed (deted) with some small number of very high values.

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