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A cereal company awards a prize to anyone who collects all 5 different game pieces.
Each game piece has an equal chance of being placed in a box of cereal. Each box of
cereal contains 1 game piece. A class of 20 students conducted a simulation to see
how many boxes of cereal must be purchased to collect all 5 different game pieces.
Their results are shown in the table below.
Complete the following in the Answer Book:
- What are the mean, median, and mode of the data?
- A box of cereal costs $2.80. Based on the simulation results, how much money must a consumer spend to collect all 5 different game pieces? Use measures of central tendency to justify your answer.
- One student in the class suggested that the data point of 26 should be ignored. Will ignoring this data point have a greater influence on the mean or the median? Use mathematics to justify your answer.
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