Priya asked each of five friends to attempt to throw a ball in a trash can until they succeeded. She recorded the number of unsuccessful attempts made by each friend as: 1, 8, 6, 2, 4. PRIYA MADE A MISTAKE: The 8 in the data set should have been 18. How would changing the 8 to 18 affect the MEDIAN of the data set? *

1,2,4,6,8

And the median can be calculated from the value in the position 3th and we got 4

And now using the correct dataset is: 1, 18, 6, 2, 4. And if we order the dataset we got:

1,2,4,6,18

And the median for this case again would be the value in the 3th position and we got:

So then we can conclude that the median is unaffected by the change of 18 instead of 8

Step-by-step explanation:

For this case we have the original dataset given:

1, 8, 6, 2, 4

And the median for this dataset can be calculated with the following dataset ordered:

1,2,4,6,8

And the median can be calculated from the value in the position 3th and we got 4

And now using the correct dataset is: 1, 18, 6, 2, 4. And if we order the dataset we got:

1,2,4,6,18

And the median for this case again would be the value in the 3th position and we got:

So then we can conclude that the median is unaffected by the change of 18 instead of 8

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step-by-step explanation:

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{x = -1/2 ,   y = -1

step-by-step explanation:

solve the following system:

{2 x + y = -2

{10 x - 3 y = -2

in the first equation, look to solve for y:

{2 x + y = -2

{10 x - 3 y = -2

subtract 2 x from both sides:

{y = -2 x - 2

{10 x - 3 y = -2

substitute y = -2 x - 2 into the second equation:

{y = -2 x - 2

{10 x - 3 (-2 x - 2) = -2

10 x - 3 (-2 x - 2) = (6 x + 6) + 10 x = 16 x + 6:

{y = -2 x - 2

{16 x + 6 = -2

in the second equation, look to solve for x:

{y = -2 x - 2

{16 x + 6 = -2

subtract 6 from both sides:

{y = -2 x - 2

{16 x = -8

divide both sides by 16:

{y = -2 x - 2

{x = -1/2

substitute x = -1/2 into the first equation:

{y = -1

{x = -1/2

collect results in alphabetical order:

answer:   {x = -1/2 ,   y = -1