Pop Quiz 3/11

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

• 84
• 90
• 85
• 88

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

• 4.1
• 6
• 4.5
• 4

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

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

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.

What is the mode?

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

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.

A data set can have more than one mode

• True
• False

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.

The mode score on the 6th grade math test was 94! Which of these interpretations must be correct?

• 99 was the highest score on the test.
• More students received a 94 than any other score
• No student scored below a 50
• A score of 91 was slightly below average.