BCoT - Mean, Mode, Median and Range

What is the range?

• The sum of the largest and smallest number

• The number in the middle

• The difference between the largest and smallest number

• The number that appears most often

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What is the median?

• The number in the middle when the numbers are in order from least to greatest.

• The difference between the largest and smallest number.

• The average

• The number that appears most often.

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What is the mode?

• The average
• The number that appears most often.
• The largest number - the smallest number
• The number in the middle.

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To find the average of a set of numbers, add up all the items and divide by...

• 2.
• The smallest number
• The largest number
• The number of items in the set.

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A data set can have more than one mode

• True
• False

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When you are trying to find the MEDIAN of a set of data and 2 numbers are left in the middle after putting them in order from least to greatest, what do you do?

• List both of the numbers as the Median.
• Add the two numbers together and divide by 2.
• Pick the one that you want.
• Subtract the two numbers.

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Roger bowled 7 games last weekend. His scores are: 155, 165, 138, 172, 127, 193, 142. What is the range of Roger's scores?

• 193
• 127
• 60
• 66

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Dr. Dre is a dentist. He needs to report on the average (Mean) number of cavities that his patients have.

1, 0, 1, 5, 0, 3, 4. What is the average number of cavities?

• 14

• 2

• 7

• 1

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After 4 throws my average darts score was 88. I want an average score of 100 after the next throw, what score will I need to get this new average?

• 100

• 180

• 148

• 139

My manager wants to show that our company pays well compared to other companies. He thinks he should use the median not the mean. Why would this be? (Select 2)

• Because the mean will be higher than the median.

• Because the median does not use the extremes of data and wont be influenced by the lower values.

• He should use the mean because it is the average everyone knows.

• Because the mean will be lower that the median.