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HELP PLEASE!! The following data shows the weight in ounces of 10 different bags of candy.10, 3, 7, 3, 4, 21, 6, 10, 1, 2, 3.After removing the outlier what does the mean absolute deviation of this data set represent???A. On average the weight of a bag of candy varies 3.2 ounces from the mean of 4 ounces B. On average the weight of a bag of candy varies 2.6 ounces from the mean of 5 ounces C. On average the weight of a bag of candy varies 3.2 ounces from the mean of 5 ounces D. On average the weight of a bag of candy varies 2.6 ounces from the mean of 4 ounces

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Answer:C. Mean= 4.9Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD): 4.099173553719Step-by-step explanation:An outlier is a value that is very different from the other data in your data set. This can skew your results. As you can see, having outliers often has a significant effect on your mean and standard deviation. Because of this, we must take steps to remove outliers from our data sets.outlier: 21