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DESCRIPTIVE MEASURES

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It describes how spread out or scattered the data are in a distribution.

a)

Measures of Variability

b)

Measures of Central Tendency

c)

Measures of Position

d)

Relative Frequency

2.

It is the difference between the highest and the lowest values in a data set.

a)

range

b)

standard deviation

c)

variance

d)

mean absolute deviation

3.

It is the measure of the degree of spread in a data set.

a)

mean absolute deviation

b)

range

c)

standard deviation

d)

variance

4.

It is the sum of the data divided by the number of data.

a)

mean

b)

median

c)

mode

d)

none of the choices

5.

It shows how often a data occurs in a distribution.

a)

cumulative frequency

b)

frequency

c)

relative frequency

d)

tally

6.

It is the number of times a data occurs in a distribution.

a)

cumulative frequency

b)

frequency

c)

relative frequency

d)

tally

7.

It is the ratio of the frequency of a category to the total frequency in a distribution.

a)

cumulative frequency

b)

frequency

c)

relative frequency

d)

tally

8.

The average amount of variation or dispersion or variability of the data in a distribution.

a)

mean absolute deviation

b)

range

c)

standard deviation

d)

variance

9.

The data which occurs most frequently in a distribution.

a)

mean

b)

median

c)

mode

d)

none of the choices

10.

The middle data when the data are arranged in increasing or decreasing order.

a)

mean

b)

median

c)

mode

d)

none of the choices

11.

The score or value where all the score values in a distribution tend to cluster.

a)

measures of central tendency

b)

measures of position

c)

measures of variability

d)

relative frequency

12.

These are points that divide a distribution into ten equal parts.

a)

decile

b)

percentile

c)

quartile

d)

none of the choices

13.

These are points that divide a distribution into four equal parts.

a)

decile

b)

percentile

c)

quartile

d)

none of the choices

14.

These are points that divided a distribution into 100 equal parts.

a)

decile

b)

percentile

c)

quartile

d)

none of the choices

15.

It describes a data in terms of the percentage of the data that fall below it.

a)

measures of central tendency

b)

measures of position

c)

measures of variability

d)

relative frequency