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How do you calculate the mean?
Add all values, then divide by the number of values
What must you do to the values before finding the median?
Put them in order from least to greatest.
What does the mode tell you?
How do you calculate the range?
Highest value minus lowest value
You pass the person in second place during a race. What place are you in now?
Second Place
A stock's prices are $10, $12, and $14. What is the mean?
$12
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Silence
Find the mode: $5, $7, $7, $9, $10.
$7
A stock’s lowest price is $18 and its highest is $27. What is its range?
$9
You sell 8 shares at $15 per share. How much money do you receive?
$120
Your lunch costs were $6, $8, $7, $9, and $10. What was the mean cost?
$8
Find the median: $30, $18, $24, $20, $28.
$24
What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
Find the range: $32, $28, $35, $30, $24, $29.
$11
You buy 5 shares at $20 each and sell them at $24 each. What is your total gain or loss?
$20 gain. Purchase: $100; sale: $120
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Find the median: $10, $14, $18, $20, $24, $30.
$19
Find the mode: $12, $14, $16, $18, $20.
No Mode. All values occur once.
Stock A’s prices are $20, $22, $19, $21. Stock B’s are $15, $26, $18, $24. Which varied less? Give both ranges.
Stock A. A's range is $3; B's is $11.
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
A deck of cards.
Two fathers and two sons each eat one slice of pizza, but they eat only three slices total? How?
There are three people. A grandfather, his son, and his grandson.
A graph shows 12 daily prices. After ordering them, the 6th price is $26 and the 7th is $30. What is the median?
$28
What has cities but not houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
A Map
What has many keys but can't open a single lock?
A piano
A stock rises from $40 to $50. What is its percent increase?
25% ($50 - $40) / $40 x 100