Math 6 Topic 8 Vocabulary

select the questions that are statistical questions

• Teacher asks

  the class:

  How many sheets of paper did you use last week?

• Teacher asks

  the class:

  What color shirt are you wearing?

• Teacher asks

  the class:

  What is 8 x 7?

• Teacher asks

  the class:

  Who is the President of the United States?

the sum of the data divided by the number of data elements in the data set

• range

• mode

• median

• mean

the middle data value of a data set

• range

• mode

• median

• mean

the data value that occurs most frequently in a data set

• range

• mode

• median

• mean

the difference between the greatest value and the least value in the data set

• range

• mode

• median

• mean

a diagram that shows the distribution of data values using the median, quartiles, minimum value, and maximum value on a number line

• frequency table

• box and whisker plot

• histogram

• stem and leaf plot

values that divide a data set into four equal parts

• halftiles

• quartiles

• tick marks

• benchmarks

shows the number of times a value occurs in each category or interval

• frequency

  table

• box plot

• histogram

• stem and

  leaf plot

graph that uses bars to show the number of values in each category or interval

• frequency

  table

• box plot

• histogram

• stem and

  leaf plot

the absolute value of the difference between a data value and the mean

• mean

  absolute

  deviation

• absolute

  deviation

• mean

• interquartile

  range