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6th Grade- Data and Statistics
6th Grade- Data and Statistics
Data and Statistics
100

Mode is defined as..

What is the number that appears the most in the data set.

100

The minimum and maximum of the data set

12, 11, 13, 11, 12, 22, 18, 16, 19, 21, 15

Minimum- 11

Maximum- 22

100

TWO of these are NOT shown in a box plot:

maximum, mean, median, minimum, mode, quartile 1, quartile 3

What are Mean and Mode?

100

What is Mode? 



The number that occurs most often in a set of data

100

Name ONE measure of center (describes the middle of the data set)

What is mean or median?

200

The range is defined as..

What is the difference between the maximum and minimum?

200

__________ gives more weight to outliers than _________ does.

Mean gives more weight to outliers than median does.

200

What is the other name for a box plot?

A box and whisker plot

200

Find the Mean of the set:


2, 5, 5

4

200

Scores on a recent 6th grade math test.

50% of the data values are less than this number.

What is 85?

300

Explain the steps to find the mean. 

1. Add all the data 

2. Divide the total by the number of data


300


What is the range for class 1 and class 2?

class 1 = 70

class 2 = 70

300

What are the three shapes of dot plot?

Symmetric

Skewed Left

Skewed Right

300

Find the Mode of the following set of data


11, 11, 12, 12, 12, 13, 15, 18, 16, 19, 21, 22

12

300

Find the Median of the set


11, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19

13

400

You find the median by doing...

What is ordering them from least to greatest, crossing them out till you find the middle number. (If there are two numbers find the mean)

400

Who was the 1st president of the US?


Is this a statistical or non-statistical question?

Non - Statistical

400

The distribution with the largest percentage of students 66 inches or shorter

What is the IQR for Boys and Girls?


Boys = 5  

Girls = 3

400

What are two characteristics of a histogram? 

1. The bars are connected

2. Each bar shows a range of numbers 

400

Explain how do you find the range of the given set of data

Range is the difference between the greatest and the least data.

500

TRUE or FALSE: "How many siblings do kids in this class have?" is a statistical question

What is TRUE?
500

TRUE or FALSE? Mean Absolute Deviation describes the average distance of all points from the mean

What is TRUE?

500

Which data most likely have variability for one school during a single school year?

A. The number of students absent each day

B. The amount of time for lunch period each day

C. The cost of slice of cheese pizza each day

A

500

Explain how to find the mean of a set of data. 

All up all the numbers and divide by the amount of numbers given. 


500

Name TWO measures of variation (describing the spread of the data)

What is 

Range?

Interquartile Range?

Mean Absolute Deviation?