The difference between the largest and the smallest values
What is range?
Find the mean.
13, 18, 13, 13, 14, 21, 13
What is 15?
Find the median and mode:
13, 18, 13, 14, 13, 16, 14, 21, 13
median: 14
mode: 13
Find the range.
Ages of Animals (years)
13, 18, 13, 14, 13, 16, 14, 21, 13
What is 8 years?
Is this a statistical question? Explain.
Taylor asked the kids in her 6th grade PE class the following question. How many shoes do you have?
Yes, it is a statistical question. It has more than one correct answer. If you ask more than one person, you're going to get more than one answer.
The value that occurs most often
What is mode?
Find the mean.
8, 9, 0, 7, 0, 8
What is 5.3 or 5 1/3?
On a state licensing test, Jean and her friends got the following scores: 65, 78, 63, 78, 97, 42, and 53. What was their median score?
What is 65?
Find the range and IQR of this data.
Number of M & M's in a package.
12, 13, 13, 15, 10, 11, 11, 11, 10, 9
Range: 6 M & M's
IQR: 3 M & M's
What percent of the rebounds were 5 or more?
75%
First, list of numbers in numerical order. Find the middle number. In the case where there is no middle number, find the mean of the middle two values.
What is median?
Name the 5 number summary for this box and whisker plot.
(minimum, 1st quartile, median, 3rd quartile, maximum)
minimum: 0 years
first quartile or lower quartile: 3 years
median: 5 years
third quartile or upper quartile: 8 years
maximum: 12 years
Find the range and the interquartile range.
Range: 81 years
IQR: 28.5 years
Describe the shape of the histogram. How many runners ran less than three miles?
skewed left; 20 runners
When a histogram is the same on the left and right side.
What is symmetrical?
Find the five number summary.
(minimum, 1st quartile, median, 3rd quartile, maximum)
minimum: 65
first quartile: 81
median: 88
third quartile: 94
maximum: 98
Find the median and mode.
Median: 70
Mode: 70
Find the range and IQR.
Range: 276-184= 92 pounds
IQR: 240-200 = 40 pounds
Scientists measured 120 trees and graphed the data on the histogram below. How many trees are between 150 cm and 300 cm?
What is 105?
What is the median of the data shown in the dot plot below?
36, 36, 36, 37, 37, 37, 37, 38, 38, 38, 38, 38, 38, 39, 39, 40
median = 38
Find the difference between the median and the mode of the set of data.
5, 2, 8, 8, 10, 1, 3, 1, 8, 6
8-5.5=
What is 2.5?
Find the range and the interquartile range.
Range: 6 years
Interquartile Range: 3 years
Find the mode, median, minimum, and maximum of the data.
mode: 83
median: 84
minimum: 80
maximum: 89