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Descriptive Statistics 1

Authored by Christopher Nielsen

Mathematics

7th - 8th Grade

CCSS covered

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Descriptive Statistics 1
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

the average of a list of numbers

mean

median

mode

range

sum

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

the middle number in an ascending list of numbers

mean

median

mode

range

sum

Answer explanation

The median is the middle number when the data is ordered in ascending (or descending) order.

When there are two numbers in the middle, the median is the average of those two numbers.

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

the most frequently occurring element in the data

mean

median

mode

range

sum

Answer explanation

The mode is the most frequently occurring element in the data.

There may be one, more than one, or no mode.

This data has no mode:

1, 2, 4

This data has two modes, namely 2 and 7:

1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 7, 7, 8

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

the distance of the higest and lowest values in the data

mean

median

mode

range

sum

Answer explanation

To find the range, we subtract the minimum value found in the data from the maximum value found in the data. Thus the range is the distance between the minimum and maximum values.

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

the result of adding two or more numbers

mean

median

mode

range

sum

Answer explanation

The result of addition is called the sum.

Tags

CCSS.6.NS.B.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

the highest value from a list of numbers

mean

median

mode

maximum

minimum

Tags

CCSS.6.NS.C.7

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

the lowest value from a list of numbers

mean

median

mode

maximum

minimum

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

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