Measures of Center and Spread

Which of the following is not a measure of center of a data set?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

Why are the mean, median, and mode considered to be measures of center?

• They show the difference between the largest and smallest numbers in the data

• They tell you how the data was collected

• They are all usually numbers that are somewhere near the middle of a set of data

• They help to organize the data.

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What is the mode?

• Number that occurs the most

• The Average

• The difference between the highest and lowest values

• The Number in the middle

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is the mean?

• The number that occurs the most

• The number in the middle

• The difference between the highest and lowest values

• The Average

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is the median?

• The number in the middle

• The difference between the highest and lowest values

• The number that occurs the most

• The average

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

When finding the median what is the FIRST step?

• Mark off the lowest number

• Mark off the highest number

• Find the Middle

• Arrange the number from Least to Greatest

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is the outlier in this data set?

{23, 60, 30, 21, 25, 35, 29}

• 35

• 21

• 30

• 60

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

The __________ is the middle number, or the mean of the two middle numbers, of the ordered data in a set.

• mean

• range

• median

• mean absolute deviation

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

The __________ of the data set is the sum of the data divided by the number of pieces of data.

• third quartile

• mean

• measures of center

• mode

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

Extremely high or low values in a data set are called __________ .

• outliers

• median

• mode

• first quartile

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5

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