Practice Measures Of Central Tendency (9.4) - Statistics

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Question 1.
What is the mean of the numbers 4, 6, and 8?
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Add the numbers and divide by how many there are.
Question 2.
Find the mode of the following numbers: 1, 2, 2, 3.
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Look for the number that occurs the most.
3Question 3.
What is the mean of the values 5, 10, 15?
- 10
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Add the values then divide by how many.
4Question 4.
The median of the following set 4, 8, 12, 16 is:
- 8
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Order the values before finding the median.
Question 5.
In a dataset of test scores: 55, 70, 70, 80, 90, 95, find the mean, median, and mode. What do these tell you?
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Don’t forget to order your dataset for the median!
Question 6.
If a data set is heavily skewed to the right with many low scores and a few high scores, how would the mean, median, and mode compare? Discuss their implications.
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Consider how outliers impact these measures.

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