Mean, Median, Range and Mode

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

What is the mode?

• The average

• The number that appears most often.

• The largest number - the smallest number

• The number in the middle.

When you are trying to find the MEDIAN of a set of data and 2 numbers are left in the middle after putting them in order from least to greatest, what do you do?

• List both of the numbers as the Median.

• Add the two numbers together and divide by 2.

• Pick the one that you want.

• Subtract the two numbers.

The number of miles that Jenna cycled each week for a 7-week period is shown:

36, 42, 28, 52, 48, 36, 31

What is the median number of miles Jenna cycled?

• 24

• 39

• 36

• 52

Match the following terms with its correct definition.

• The sum of all values divided by the total number of values

• Mean or Average

• Add together, and divide by 2.

• Range

• The difference between the highest and lowest values in a set of numbers

• Median

• The number that appears most frequently in a set of numbers

• Mode

• The middle value in a list of numbers when arranged in ascending order

• What if there are 2 numbers in the middle?

Match the terms to its keywords:

• Average

• Median

• Middle

• Mean

• Most

• Mode

What does the average (mean) represent in a dataset?

• The middle value of the dataset

• The most frequently occurring value

• The sum of all values divided by the number of values

• The difference between the highest and lowest values

A data set can have more than one mode

• True

• False

Find the median of the dataset: 3, 7, 9, 15, 18.

• 7

• 9

• 11

• 15

Can there be more than one mode?

• Yes

• No