In 1994, major league baseball players went on strike. At the time, the average salary was $1,049,589, and the median salary was $337,500. If you were representing the owners, which summary would you use to convince the public that a strike was not needed? If you were a player, which would you use? Why was there such a large discrepancy between the mean and median salaries? Explain.

If you were representing the owners, you would use the.. (average salary/ median salary)to convince the public that a strike was not needed. If you were a player, you would use the . (median salary/average salary) to convince the public that a strike was needed. The average and median salaries differ so greatly because .(the distribution of salaries is symmetric/ the distribution of salaries is sketched right/ the distribution of salaries is sketched left/ the meant is resistance to the outliers, but the median is not).