Comparing Central Tendency

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

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

A data set can have more than one _______

• Median
• Mode
• Mean
• Midrange

What is the mode?

4 , 8 , 5 , 17 , 5 , 4 , 9 , 5 , 6 , 82

• 4

• 9

• 6

• 5

Which is the middle number of an ordered set of odd numbers?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

Which is another word for "average?"

• mean

• median

• mode

• range

If you score 76, 85, 97, and 83 on your math tests, what would your median score be? 

• 84
• 90
• 85
• 88

Find the mean of these numbers:
5, 11, 2, 12, 4, 2

• 4.1
• 6
• 4.5
• 4

• spread

• mean

• outlier

• median

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

• Multiply the two numbers in the middle and then divide by two.

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

• They are both the median

• None of the above