10.2 Measures of Central Tendency

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

• 84
• 90
• 85
• 88

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

How many students have more than 1,000 songs on their MP3 player?

• 5

• 16

• 10

• 4

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.

What is the mode in the following numbers? [3, 24, 3, 7, 30, 1, 3, 7, 3]

• 3 and 7 both are modes

• 1 and 7 both are modes

• 3 only

• 7 only

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

What is the standard deviation for the data given:

5, 10, 7, 12, 0, 20, 15, 22, 8, 2

• 6.89

• 10.1

• 7.26

• 9

All of the below sets have the same mean.
Set 1-Standard Deviation=3.1
Set 2-Standard Deviation=4.9
Set 3-Standard Deviation=1.7
Set 4-Standard Deviation=3.2
Which set of data probably has the points closest to the mean?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

The term "snowstorms of note" applies to all snowfalls over 6 inches. The snowfall amounts for

snowstorms of note in Utica, New York, over a four-year period are as follows: 7.1, 9.2, 8.0, 6.1,

14.4, 8.5, 6.1, 6.8, 7.7, 21.5, 6.7, 9.0, 8.4, 7.0, 11.5, 14.1, 9.5, 8.6

What are the mean and population standard deviation for these data, to the nearest hundredth?

• mean = 9.46; standard deviation = 3.74

• mean = 9.46; standard deviation = 3.85

• mean = 9.45; standard deviation = 3.74

• mean = 9.45; standard deviation = 3.85

Which measure of central tendency would best represent this data?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range