Skew, Shape, & Outliers

Shape?

• Skewed right
• Skewed left
• Symmetric
• Bimodal

A data set can have more than one median?

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is the shape of this bar graph?

• Skew right

• Skew left

• Symmetrical

• uniform

Describe the shape of Daniel's data

• skewed left

• skewed right

• symmetrical

mean = median

• skewed left

• skewed right

• symmetrical

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5D

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.2

the mean is less than the median

• skewed left

• skewed right

• symmetrical

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5D

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.2

The ages of nine employees at a company are shown below.
45, 50, 52, 58, 63, 63, 41, 58, 49
The company hires a tenth employee who is 28 years old. What effect does the new employee have on the shape of the data distribution?

• The new employee causes the distribution to become skewed to the right.
• The new employee causes the distribution to be skewed to the left.
• The new employee causes the distribution to become more symmetrical.
• The new employee causes the distribution to become less spread out.

What measure of central tendency (mean, median or mode) would be best for the following set of data?

0, 89, 92, 97, 99, 100

• Mode, because it is the one that shows up the most.

• Median, because there is an outlier.

• Mean, because there is not an outlier.

• There is not a best measure of central tendency for this data.

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5D

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.2

Which dot plot has the greatest variability?

• A
• B
• C
• D

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

A data value that is much higher or much lower than the other values in a data set.

• outlier
• inlier
• immalier
• sublier