Mean Absolute Deviation - Period 3

What is the first step when calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation?

• Find the distance each value is from the mean
• Find the mean of the distances
• Find the mean of the data

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What is the second step when calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation?

• Find the distance each value is from the mean
• Find the mean of the distances
• Find the mean of the data

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What is the third step when calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation?

• Find the distance each value is from the mean
• Find the mean of the distances
• Find the mean of the data

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What is another word for average?

• Mean
• Median
• Mode
• Range

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Find the MAD:
58, 38, 54, 48, 26, 36

• 43
• 20
• 10
• 12

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What is the mean of this data set?
6, 7, 2, 1, 5, 2, 1, 6

• 24.75
• 3
• 3.7
• 3.8

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An amusement park recorded the ages of the first ten people to ride a new attraction. The ages were as follows: 11, 34, 16, 18, 22, 30, 18, 20, 15, and 16. What is the mean absolute deviation of this data set? 

• 20
• 5.2
• 18
• 4.8

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What is Mean Absolute Deviation?

• The average distance of a data's values from the mean
• The average distance the data is from 0
• Absolute Value
• Distance

Which of the following is true concerning the mean absolute deviation of a set of data? 

• It describes the variation of the data values around the median.
• It describes the absolute value of the mean. 
• It describes the average distance between each data value and the mean.
• It describes the variation of the data values around the mode.

Determine the mean absolute deviation of the data. 9, 7, 11, 10, and 8

• 9
• 6
• 1.2
• 5