Definitions
Populations
Mean, median, mode, range
MAD
Identifying bias
100
Define Mean
What is the average of a set of data
100

Identify the population for the below question.  A survey of 1353 American households found that 18% of the households own a computer.

What is population is all American Households.

100

Find the mean of the following set of data: 13, 23, 21, 20, 21, 24, 18

What is the mean is 20

100

How do you find the MAD

Find the mean

Find the distance from each data point and the mean.

Find the mean again of the distances

100

1.A sports writer wants to know which is the most popular college basketball team. Which group of people would give her the least biased answer?

 A. every 4th person entering a college dining all 

B. every 4th student at a freshman orientation 

C. every 4th person entering a grocery store

What is C

200
Define Median and Mode
Median is the middle number of a data set Mode is the number that occurs the most in a set of data
200

A recent survey of 2625 elementary school children found that 28% of the children could be classified obese.

Population: Elementary school children

200

What is the mode: 10, 9, 4, 4, 8, 8, 8, 4, 7, 6, 11, 14, 27

What is 4 and 8

200

Find the mean absolute deviation of the following data set: 5, 6, 7, 4, 3



What is the MAD is: 1.2

200

What sample would be the best to represent the population?

A gaming website wanted to find out which console its visitors owned.

A.  all of the website visitors

B.  visitors over 24

C.  Visitors with an 'e' in their user name.

C.  Visitors with an 'e' in their user name

300

What is a population?

The group of people or items you want to find more information about.

300

What is the best sample?

A cookie company has a new logo and they want to see if people like the new design.

A. Every person in the state of Kentucky

B. A selection of shoppers at grocery stores across the US.

C.  The students at a local elementary school.

D. An online survey for the people who visit their website.

B

300

What is the median: 10, 9, 4, 4, 8, 8, 8, 4, 7, 6, 11, 14, 27

median 8

300

The number of points Maggie has scored in each of the first 5 games of the basketball season are 14, 17, 17, 13, and 34. What is the mean absolute deviation for the number of points for Maggie's first 5 games?

What is 6.

300

Identify the problem with the survey below?

A survey company was trying to see if people in Wisconsin thought the pollution was too high.  The surveyed a selection of people who live in small towns.

Typically there is more pollution is higher in big cities.  They should have surveyed people all over the WI including large cities and small towns.

400

What are the three important things you need to make sure that you have a representative sample?

1. similar center

2. similar shape

3. similar spread

400

What is the population for the following situation?

A restaurant chain wanted to find out how the customer experience was in the store.

customers at the restaurant

400

Frank has 3 nickels, 5 dimes, and 2 quarters. Find the mean of the values of Frank's coins.

mean: 11.5 cents

400

There are 7 animal shelters in the local area. The number of cats in each is 4, 6, 3, 7, 4, 5, and 20. What is the mean absolute deviation for the number of cats in shelters to the nearest tenth?


What is 3.7

400

Identify the problems with the below research proposal: I want to determine how many middle school students in the U.S. play video games. I plan to post a survey on Mrs. Runyon's website and request for students in my class to fill it out.

it is not random

not every middle school student in the US got a chance to be surveyed