Central tendency

What is another word for mean?

• average

• sum

• middle

• frequent

What is another word for median?

• average

• sum

• middle

• frequent

What is mode?

• the number that occurs the most in a data set

• the average of all the numbers

• the middle number in the data

• the range of the data

What is the mean of the data below?

1 , 5 , 10 , 11 , 20

• 10

• 19

• 9.4

• 9.1

What is the median of the data below?

20 , 3 , 17 , 1 , 5 , 4

• 4

• 5

• 4.5

• 4,5

What is the mode of the data below?

12 , 14 , 5 , 12 , 5 , 12 , 11

• 5

• 12

• 5 and 12

• 8.5

In the first round of the playoffs, Ben Simmons points (in each game) was listed below. How many points per game is he averaging in the playoffs?

17 , 24 , 19 , 17 , 14

• 16.8

• 17

• 17.8

• 18.2

It is the science concerned with developing and studying methods for collecting, analyzing, interpreting and presenting empirical data.

• Statistics

• Research

• Mathematics

• Measures of Central Tendency

It is the measure of central tendency used when one data is more important than the other data.

• mean

• median

• mode

• weighted mean

Your grade in Statistics are 88, 91 and 90.

What should be your next grade to get an average of 90?

• 91

• 89

• 90

• 88