Measures of Center and Variability Vocabulary

What is a CLUSTER?

• a group of data points that crowd near each other

• the most common number in a set of numbers

• what forms when many data points are at one value

• the distance between the greatest and least values in a data set

What does SKEWED LEFT mean?

• turn left at a stop sign

• when most of the data points on a graph are clustered near lower values

• a data point far away from the other points; it doesn't quite fit with the rest of the data points

• when most of the data points on a graph are clustered near higher values

What does SKEWED RIGHT mean?

• when most of the data points on a graph are clustered near the lower values

• turn right at the stop sign

• what forms when many data points are at one value

• when most of the data points on a graph are clustered near lower values

What are SYMMETRICAL GRAPHS?

• graphs that have no value

• graphs that have different shapes on either side of a middle points

• graphs that have the same shape on either side of a middle point

• graphs that have the same lines and up and down

What is a PEAK?

• what forms when many data points are at one value

• a group of points that crowd near each other

• the most common number in a set of numbers

• the difference between the greatest and least values in a set

What is an OUTLIER?

• a person who stands outside and lies

• the middle number in an ordered set of numbers

• a data point far away from the other data points; it doesn't quite fit with the rest of the data points

• when most of the data points on a graph are clustered near the high values

What is the MEAN in mathematics?

• the middle number in an ordered set of numbers

• the most common number in a set of numbers

• the average of a set numbers divided by how many there are

• the meanest number in all of math

What is the MEDIAN?

• the middle number in an ordered set of numbers

• the last number in an ordered set of numbers

• the most common number in an ordered set of numbers

• the average of a set numbers divided by how many there are

What is the MODE?

• the middle number in an ordered set of numbers

• the average of a set numbers divided by how many there are

• the most common number in a set of numbers

• the difference between the greatest and least values in a data set

What is the RANGE?

• graphs that have the same shape on either side of a middle point

• what forms when many data points are at one value

• a group of data points that crowd near each other

• the difference between the greatest and least values in a data set