Measures of Central Tendancy

If you score 76, 85, 97, and 83 on your math tests, what would your median score be? 

• 84
• 90
• 85
• 88

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

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

• 4.1
• 6
• 4.5
• 4

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

The salary of the employees in the office were $15,000; $18,000; $16,000; $14,000; $90,000; and $17,000.  What is the best measure of the central tendency of the salaries?

• Mean
• Median
• Mode
• Range

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5D

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.2

The heights of the starting 5 players on a basketball team are 60 inches, 67 inches, 64 inches, and 65 inches.  If the mean or balance point of the players is 65, what is the height of the 5th player?

• 70
• 69
• 61
• 68

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

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
• Median
• Mode
• Range

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5D

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.2

• spread
• mean
• outlier
• median

How many students scored more than 80%?

• 10
• 13
• 7
• 15

What is the mode of the scores?

• 24
• 14
• 34
• 30

What measure of central tendency (mean, median or mode) would be best for the following set of data?
0, 89, 92, 97, 99, 100

• Mode, because it is the one that shows up the most.
• Median, because there is an outlier.  The outlier could be incorrect and would influence the mean too much.
• Mean, because there is not an outlier.  You should always use the mean.
• There is not a best measure of central tendency for this data.

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5D

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.2

Find the Quartile 1 of the following data set:

2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 7,

• 4

• 6

• 3

• 5

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C