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A town council keeps hourly readings from an air-quality sensor outside a primary school. It wants to use them to train a model that predicts the level of fine dust (PM2.5) in the air. Part of the data is shown.

TimeTemperature (°C)PM2.5 (µg/m³)
08:0014.231
09:0015.0
10:0015.835
10:0015.835
11:0016036
12:0016.934

(a) Identify two different data quality problems in the table. For each one, give the time of the row where it appears. [2]

(b) Suggest a treatment for the problem in the 11:00 row, and justify it. [2]

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