Measures of Center
Vocabulary
Box Plots
Graphs
Word Problems
100

What is the mode of the numbers: 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6?

What is 4?

100

What is the number that appears most often in a data set?

What is mode?

100

What is the name of the line in the middle of the box in a box plot?

What is Median?

100

 If a dot plot shows three dots above the number 5, what does that indicate?  

What is the value 5 occurs three times in the data set?

100

Sarah recorded her steps for 5 days: 4000, 5000, 6000, 5000, 7000. What is the mode?

What is 5000?

200

What is the mean of the data set: 5, 10, 15?

What is 10?

200

What is the middle number in a data set when ordered from least to greatest?

What is Median?

200

How many quartiles are represented in a box plot?

What is four quartiles?

200

In a stem-and-leaf plot, if the stem is 3 and the leaves are 1, 2, and 5, what numbers are represented?

What is 31, 32, and 35. 

200

Jay scored 80, 85, and 90 on his math tests. What is his average?

What is 85?

300

Find the median of the following set: 3, 7, 9, 11, 12.

What is 9?

300

What is the data point that is significantly different from the rest of the data set?

What is outlier?

300

What are the five-number summary values used to build a box plot?

What is Minimum, Q1, Median, Q3, Maximum ?

300

How can you identify the mode from a histogram?

What is the tallest bar in the histogram?

300

The temperatures over five days were: 65°F, 72°F, 68°F, 70°F, 74°F
What is the range of the temperatures?

What is 9?

400

Calculate the range of the data set: 20, 35, 50, 65, 80.

What is 60?

400

What is the difference between the greatest and least values in a data set?

What is range?

400

Given a box plot with lower quartile at 15, upper quartile at 25, and median at 20, what is the interquartile range (IQR)?

What is 10?

400

 If a stem-and-leaf plot has a stem of 4 and leaves of 2, 3, 7, what is the range of the values represented?

What is 5?

400

James ran the following distances (in miles) over five days: 3.2, 2.8, 3.5, 3.0, 20.0
Which number is an outlier?

What is 20.0?

500

 If the scores on a test are 78, 85, 92, 85, and 88, what is the mean score?

What is 85.6?

500

What is the “interquartile range” (IQR)?

What is the difference between Q3 and Q1?

500

What are Q1 and Q3 for the data set: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7?

What is Q1 = 2, Q3 = 6 ?

500

If most dots are on the left side of the plot, what can you say about the data distribution?

What is the data is skewed right?

500

The numbers 5, 8, 11, 14, and x have a mean of 10. What is x?

What is 12?