Data Distribution

What is the second step when calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation?

• Find the distance each value is from the mean

• Find the mean of the distances

• Find the mean of the data

As part of a 6th grade statistics project, the teacher brings a candy jar full of gumballs (red & green). The assignment is to estimate the proportion of red gumballs in the jar. Suppose one of the students draws 25 gumballs from the jar: 8 are red, 17 are green. What is the SAMPLE?

• 25 gumballs drawn

• all gumballs in the jar

• the students

• the 17 green gumballs

Is there symmetry in this data?

• no, it isn't even on both sides

• yes, the left side matches the right side

Type of Data arrangement

• Symmetrical

• Hairline

• Skewed Right

• Skewed Left

What is the shape of the data for Lucy's Steakhouse?

• Symmetrical

• Skewed Left

• Skewed Right

• Skewed up box

• Skewed to the left

• Skewed to the right

What is the shape of the distribution?

• Skewed Left 

• Skewed Right

• Symmetric

• Bimodal

Describe the data distribution shape of the graph.

• Skewed right

• Skewed left

• Uniform

• Symmetrical

Which of the following best describes the shape of the distribution?

• SKEWED LEFT

• SKEWED RIGHT

• UNIFORM

• SYMMETRICAL

Box and Whisker Plots show

• variability or how great a range is of the information.

• all of the measures of center (mean, median, and mode)

• 150% of all of the information

• is about how long the whiskers are on faces of cats on boxes.