Your friend places 11 numbers into a hat without showing you what those numbers are. He tells you he will give you $10 if you can guess the exact number that he will randomly pick out of the hat. He says that the mean of the numbers is 5, the median is 6, and the mode is 8. What would your best guess be?
a. ?5
b. ?6
c. ?8
d. ?Any random number between 1 and 11; knowing the statistics won't help
ANSWER:
c
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