Central Measures

What measure of central tendency (mean, median or mode) would be best for the following set of data?
0, 89, 92, 97, 99, 100

• Mode, because it is the one that shows up the most.

• Median, because there is an outlier.  The outlier could be incorrect and would influence the mean too much.

• Mean, because there is not an outlier.  You should always use the mean.

• There is not a best measure of central tendency for this data.

Find the median: 12, 15, 13, 18, 23, 5?

• 14

• 16

• 16.5

• 18

What is the mode in the following numbers? [3, 24, 3, 7, 30, 1, 3, 7, 3]

• 3 and 7 both are modes

• 1 and 7 both are modes

• 3 only

• 7 only

What is the mode of the scores?

• 24

• 14

• 34

• 30

What is the Mode?
  22,7,22,1,7,18,18,16,6,6,7

• 7

• 18

• 21

• 6

What is the Median?
8,13,2,4,48

• 8

• 48

• 2

• 9

What is the Mean?
9, 5, 7

• 8

• 11

• 7

• 6

What is the Mode?
4,8,5,17,5,4,9,5,6,82

• 4

• 9

• 84

• 5

What is the Median?
34,98,12,45,61

• 98

• 12

• 34

• 45

Which is the MIDDLE?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range