Statistics Vocabulary

The least salary of the employees in the office is $15,000; and the greatest salary is 70,000. Another salary of 100,000 is added to the office salary. Select a true statement for the following each statistics.

• Mean decrease

• Median cannot be determine

• Median will decrease

• Mean will increase

• Standard deviation will decrease

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Harley surveyed his classmates about how many siblings they have and got the following data: 0, 1, 3, 5, 4, 2, 2, 9, 1, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3 Which measure is best measure of center of the data?

• Mean because the data is skewed

• Median because the data is skewed

• Median because the data is symmetric

• Mean because the data is symmetric

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Find the mean of these numbers:
5, 11, 2, 12, 4, 2

• 4.1
• 6
• 4.5
• 4

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The salary of the employees in the office were $15,000; $18,000; $16,000; $14,000; $90,000; and $17,000. Based on

this information an outlier will be a number greater or less than? Select your answer.

• Less than 10,500; then there are no outliers to the left

• Greater than 22,500 then 90,000 is an outlier

• Greater than 10,500 then all values are outliers

• Grater than 23,000; then 90,000 is an outlier

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A data set can have more than one mode

• True
• False

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The number of miles that Jenna cycled each week for a 7-week period is shown: 
36, 42, 28, 52, 48, 36, 31 
What is the median number of miles Jenna cycled?

• 24
• 36
• 39
• 52

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

In order to find the median, the data must be sorted from least to greatest first.

• True
• False

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A  number that is either MUCH larger or MUCH smaller than the rest of the numbers is a(n)

• outlier
• inlier
• lier
• I'm lying

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If you have two numbers in the middle, you should

• add them together and divide by two
• find the number in between the two
• find the mean of the two numbers
• all of these

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If a number is added to the set that is near the mean, how does this affect standard deviation?

• increase
• decrease
• stay the same
• both increase and decrease

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