Please helppp A middle school coach wrote down the time, in seconds, of her students’ 100-meter dash as shown in the table.

Student

Time (seconds)

Gary

11.9

Rick

12.3

Phillip

13.5

Jorge

12.0

Robert

12.3

Jeremy

16.0

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Part B: If the slowest time and the fastest time are removed from the data, how does the new mean compare to the mean of the original data set?

A. The mean would not change as the lowest and greatest values were removed.

B. The mean would increase as there is less variability in the data.

C. The mean would not be comparable as the data sets are different.

D. The mean would decrease as there is less variability in the data.