Measures of Center, Spread, and Shape

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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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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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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A data set can have more than one mode

• True
• False

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To find the _________ you add up all the numbers and then divide by how many numbers you have.

• Mean
• Median
• Mode
• Range

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The difference between the third and first quartiles in a data set, representing the middle half of the data.

• range
• interquartile range
• standard deviation
• mean absolute deviation

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What do quartiles split data up into?

• halves

• thirds

• fourths

• fifths

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What is the shape of the dot plot shown?

• skewed left

• skewed right

• symmetrical

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How many total students were surveyed about their number of brothers and sisters? (add up all of the dots)

• 15

• 10

• 6

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