Measures of Central Tendency

Given the following set of data:

10, 8, 9, 9, 7, 9, 10, 6, 5, 5, 3, 4

Find the mode.

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is a measure of center? (Select ALL that apply.)

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Outlier

• Range

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

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

• 4.1
• 6
• 4.5
• 4

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is the Mode?
4,8,5,17,5,4,9,5,6,82

• 4
• 9
• 84
• 5

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

Find the median.

7, 8, 3, 4, 8

• 3

• 4

• 8

• 7

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What do you do if there are two numbers in "the middle" when you are finding the median?

• Pick your favorite number

• They are both the median

• Find the mean of the two numbers

• None of the above

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

How would the mode change if a five was removed from the data set?

4 , 8 , 5 , 17 , 5 , 4 , 9 , 5 , 6 , 82

• The mode would become a 4

• There would be two modes: 4 and 5

• There would be no mode

• The mode would stay the same

Find the mean.

7, 13, 6, 2

• 28

• 7

• 4

• 6

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

Look at the dot plot. Notice there are groups of data around the numbers 0, 20, and 40. What do we call those groups of data?

• Outliers

• Clusters

• Gaps

A data set can have more than one _______

• Median
• Mode
• Mean
• Midrange

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C