SOLUTION: In each of the following cases, would the mean or the median probably be higher, or would they be about the same? 1. Ages at which residents of a suburban city die, including ev

Question 408675: In each of the following cases, would the mean or the median probably be higher, or would they be about the same?
1. Ages at which residents of a suburban city die, including everything from infant deaths to the most elderly
2. Shoe sizes of adult women
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1. The distribution would tend to skew to the left (meaning a lot more people die in the older ages than in the younger ages), hence the median would be higher than the mean.
2. My opinion is that the mean and the median would be just about the same, because there's really not a lot of variation across shoe sizes of women.
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