Measures of Central Tendency Flashcard

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What does the median represent in a set of numbers?

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The number that represents the middle value in the set of numbers.

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What does the mean represent in a set of numbers?

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The average number.

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How do you find the median of a set of numbers that are not listed in order?

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Rewrite the numbers in order from lowest to highest first, then find the number in the middle.

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What is the mode of the set 3, 3, 4, 5, 10?

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3

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Calculate the mean of the scores: 10, 3, 2, 5, 0.

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4 points.

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Define 'mean' in statistics.

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The sum of all values divided by the number of values.

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Define 'median' in statistics.

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The middle value when a data set is ordered from least to greatest.

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Define 'mode' in statistics.

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The value that appears most frequently in a data set.

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What is the first step to find the median?

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Order the numbers from lowest to highest.

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If a data set has an even number of values, how do you find the median?

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Take the average of the two middle numbers.