The team manager for a high school basketball team discarded a lower outlier and calculated that the mean number of points scored per game
was 45 and the median was 48.
What is the likely effect if the analyst decides to include the lower outlier in the
calculations?

a) The median will remain about the same, but the mean will decrease.
b) The median will decrease, and the mean will increase.
c) The mean will stay about the same, but the median will decrease.
d) The median and mean will both stay about the same.