Mean Absolute Deviation

What is the definition of Mean?

• Last number minus the first number

• Range of the numbers

• Number that occurs the most often

• Average of the numbers

What is the first step to solving for the Mean Absolute Deviation?

• Find the mean of the new set of numbers

• Find the mean of the given data set

• Subtract the mean from each original data point

What is the second step to solving for the Mean Absolute Deviation?

• Find the mean of the new set of numbers

• Find the mean of the given data set

• Subtract the mean from each original data point

What is the last step to solving for the Mean Absolute Deviation?

• Find the mean of the new set of numbers

• Find the mean of the given data set

• Subtract the mean from each original data point

Find the Mean Absolute Deviation of the set: 10, 5, 7, 14, 19, 32, 25

• 8

• 16

• 56

• 112

What is the definition of the Mean Absolute Deviation?

• A data set is the average distance between each data value and the mean

• The average of the numbers

• The difference between the lowest and highest values

• The "middle" value in the list of numbers

Find the MAD:
58, 38, 54, 48, 26, 36

• 43
• 20
• 10
• 12

Find the Mean Absolute Deviation:  10, 9, 3, 8, 10.  The Mean is 8

• 3
• 5
• 1
• 2

Find the Mean Absolute Deviation: (MAD)

10, 9, 3, 8, 10.

• 3

• 5

• 1

• 2

Find the interquartile range using the following.
Minimum:  1
Q1:  3
Median:  5
Q3:  7
Maximum:  9

• 8
• 4
• 5
• 10

Tags

TEKS.MATH.6.12C

TEKS.MATH.8.11B