Statistics Quiz Review

The number of pages that Carolyn wrote in her journal each day from Monday to Friday is shown below: 
9, 8, 12, 6, 10
What is the mean number of pages she wrote per day?

• 5
• 6
• 9
• 11

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is the mode?

• The value that occurs the most often in a data set
• The middle number in an ordered set of data
• The sum of all the numbers in a data set divided by the size
• The sum of the between the greatest and the least elements, divided by two

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is the median?

• The value that occurs the most often in a data set
• The middle number in an ordered set of data
• The sum of all the numbers in a data set divided by the size
• The sum of the between the greatest and the least elements, divided by two

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

Roger bowled 7 games last weekend. His scores are: 155, 165, 138, 172, 127, 193, 142. What is Roger's median score?

• 127
• 155
• 156
• 193

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

The heights of some students are given.
158cm     172cm      164cm
164cm     167cm      159cm
 What is the range of the heights?

• 13cm
• 14cm
• 164cm
• 330cm

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CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1

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

• Pick your favorite number
• Add the two numbers in the middle & then divide by two.
• They are both the median
• None of the above

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

Find the median, mode and range: 
3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 8, 3

• median:7  mode:3  range:10
• median:6  mode:3  range:7
• median:7  mode:3 range:8

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is an outlier?

• A value that is much less or much greater than the other values in a data set.
• The difference between the upper and lower quartiles of a data set.
• The mean of the distances from each data value in a set to the mean of a set.
• The difference between the greatest and least numbers in a data set.

The temperature received till Friday was 34, 38, 36, 30 and 31. If the temperature on Saturday drops to 11^oC, how does the inclusion of Saturday's temperature affect the weekly mean temperature?

• increase

• decreases

• does not change

• can not be determined

What is the mean?

• The middle number in a set of data

• The average of the set of data

• The lowest value

• The number that occurs most often

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C