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is a figure skater. She is competing at the local level to represent her town in the state "skate-off challenge." There are seven local judges they each give her a score from 50 to 100. She has the option of choosing the arithmetic mean (average) or the median as her final score. If the judges score her as you see below, which statistic should she pick?

92, 78, 67, 87, 88, 77, 90

 

* This is one of those SHOW ALL OF YOUR WORK AND EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER problems.

 

 

 

 

 

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