Measures of Central Tendency (2-25-22)

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

• 84
• 90
• 85
• 88

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

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

• 4.1
• 6
• 4.5
• 4

Tags

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

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5D

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.2

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.

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is the mode?

• The average
• The number that appears most often.
• The largest number - the smallest number
• The number in the middle.

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

To find the average of a set of numbers, add up all the items and divide by...

• 2.
• The smallest number
• The largest number
• The number of items in the set.

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

A data set can have more than one mode

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

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.

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

Which measure of central tendency best represents this set of data:
3, 4, 5, 4, 5

• Mean
• Median
• Mode
• Range

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5D

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.2

What is an outlier?

• A value that is much less or much greater than the other values in a data set.
• The difference between the upper and lower quartiles of a data set.
• The mean of the distances from each data value in a set to the mean of a set.
• The difference between the greatest and least numbers in a data set.