Center and Spread

What is the shape of the data shown?

• Skewed left

• Skewed Right

• Symmetric

• Bell shaped

What is the shape of the data?

• symmetrical

• skewed left

• skewed right

• uniform

The dot plots show the gas mileage, in miles per gallon, for several cars and SUV's. Which type of vehicle has a larger spread?

• cars

• SUVs

What is the shape of the data shown?

• Skewed left

• Skewed Right

• Symmetric

• Bell shaped

Because this distribution is ____________ to the ___________, we would use the ______________ for the center and the _____________ for the spread of the data.

• symmetric, middle, median, IQR

• skewed, left, median, IQR

• skewed, left, mean, IQR

• skewed, right, median, standard deviation

What is the shape of the distribution?

• symmetric

• uniform

• skewed to the right

• skewed to the left

Describe the shape of the graph.

• skewed

• symmetrical

• uniform

Which measure of spread should be used to describe the distribution?

• standard deviation

• interquartile range

• range

• median

Which measure of center will be the smallest?

(Remember which one pulls toward the tail)

• median

• mean

• mode

Which describes the shape of the distribution?

• skewed right

• skewed left

• symmetric

• uniform