Acommunity college faculty is negotiating a new contract with the school board. the distribution of faculity salaries is skewed right by several faculty members who make over $100,000 per year. if the faculty want to give the community the impression that they deserve higher salaries, should they advertise the mean or median of their current salaries
a. the faculty should use the median to make their argument. the median will be higher than the mean since the median is influenced by the few high salaries.
b. the faculty should use the mean to make their argument. the mean will be higher than the median since the mean is influenced by the few extremely high salaries.
c. the faculty should use the median to make their argument. the median will be lower than the mean since the mean is influenced by the few extremely high salaries.
d. the faculty should use the mean to make their argument. the mean will be lower than the median since it will be influenced by the few high salaries