Quiz- Measures of Central Tendency

What is the median?

• The number in the middle when the numbers are in order from least to greatest.

• The difference between the largest and smallest number.

• The average

• The number that appears most often.

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is the mode?

• The average
• The number that appears most often.
• The largest number - the smallest number
• The number in the middle.

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

A data set can have more than one mode

• True
• False

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

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

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

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.

A data set can have more than one _______

• Median
• Mode
• Mean
• Midrange

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is the range?

• The sum of the largest and smallest number

• The number in the middle

• The difference between the largest and smallest number

• The number that appears most often

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CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1

• 30

• 35

• 40

• 50

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C