Measures of Central Tendency

The number of pages that Carolyn wrote in her journal about her favorite cartoons 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

In a cartoon series, what is the mode of the number of times a character appears in each episode?

• 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

In a cartoon world, what is the median height of the characters?

• 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

Roger, a cartoon character, 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

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

• 13cm

• 14cm

• 164cm

• 330cm

What do you do if there are two numbers in "the middle" when you are finding the median in a cartoon character's height list?

• Pick your favorite number

• Add the two numbers in the middle & then divide by two.

• They are both the median

• None of the above

Find the median, mode and range of the number of times Tom chases Jerry in a week: 
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

In a cartoon series, what would be considered an outlier character?

• A character that is much less or much greater in size than the other characters in the series.

• The difference between the upper and lower quartiles of a character's screen time.

• The mean of the distances from each character's screen time to the mean screen time of the series.

• The difference between the greatest and least screen times of characters in the series.

In the cartoon world, 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

In a cartoon show, what is the mean score of the characters in a game?

• The middle number in a set of scores

• The average of the set of scores

• The lowest score

• The score that occurs most often