Median, Mean, Mode, Range

Given the following distributions, which has the highest median?

• Red

• Purple

• Black

Given a set of symmetric data, which of the following is an appropriate measure of the center?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

Given a set of skewed data, which is an appropriate measure of center?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

Gabriella’s quiz grades are shown below.
88, 92, 92, 96, 98
Gabriella scored a 20 on her sixth quiz. What effect does this score have?

• The low score causes the median to increase.

• The low score causes the median to decrease.

• The low score causes the mean to increase.

• The low score causes the mean to decrease.

A measure of central tendency where you add the data and divide by the number of data

• range

• median

• mode

• mean

Middle of the data set when in order

• range

• median

• mode

• mean

A measure of central tendency that occurs most often

• mean

• mean absolute deviation

• mode

• median

Subtraction of the maximum and minimum in a data set

• range

• mean

• median

• mode

A type of graph that is built by placing a marker above each member of the data set represented on a number line. The mode is most easily identified from this graph!

• line graph

• stem and leaf

• dot plot

• box plot