Abasketball coach keeps track of the points scored per game for all her players. she gives a trophy to the player with the highest mean score at the end of the season. which of the following justifies why she uses the mean instead of the median.

She wants to take unusually good and unusually bad games into account

Step-by-step explanation:

As, while calculating mean, we take into account all the observations be it very low or very high

But while calculating the Median,we arrange our observations in the increasing order and then we check the middle of all observations.

In this way we don't take into account of all the observations and in this way the high and low values i.e. extreme values are neglected.

Hence, the correct option is:

She wants to take unusually good and unusually bad games into account

the data of the detroit pistons in numerical order from least to greatest is 0.30, 0.37, 0.55, 0.62, 0.69, 0.72, 0.73, 0.75, 0.77, 0.78, 0.80, 0.81, 0.81, 0.83, 0.84, 0.89

the data of the miami heat in numerical order from least to greatest is 0.50, 0.50, 0.56, 0.57, 0.67, 0.72, 0.72, 0.72, 0.75, 0.75, 0.76, 0.81, 0.82, 0.90, 1.00, 1.00

the detroit pistons median : 1.52

the miami heat median: 1.47

the iqr of this data is 0.05

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