Problem
2019 AMC 8 Problem 10
The diagram shows the number of students at soccer practice each weekday during last week. After computing the mean and median values, Coach discovers that there were actually 21 participants on Wednesday. Which of the following statements describes the change in the mean and median after the correction is made? ![[asy] unitsize(2mm); defaultpen(fontsize(8bp)); real d = 5; real t = 0.7; real r; int[] num = {20,26,16,22,16}; string[] days = {"Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday"}; for (int i=0; i<30; i=i+2) { draw((i,0)--(i,-5*d),gray); }for (int i=0; i<5; ++i) { r = -1*(i+0.5)*d; fill((0,r-t)--(0,r+t)--(num[i],r+t)--(num[i],r-t)--cycle,gray); label(days[i],(-1,r),W); }for(int i=0; i<32; i=i+4) { label(string(i),(i,1)); }label("Number of students at soccer practice",(14,3.5)); [/asy]](/static/aops/e1796ef723acbb9a4cfeacf57e69202cddf3e0d3.png)
\textbf{(A) } The mean increases by 1 and the median does not change.
\textbf{(B) } The mean increases by 1 and the median increases by 1.
\textbf{(C) } The mean increases by 1 and the median increases by 5.
\textbf{(D) } The mean increases by 5 and the median increases by 1.
\textbf{(E) } The mean increases by 5 and the median increases by 5.
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