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What is the most common value in a data set called?
Mode
What is the middle value called when you put all the numbers in order?
Median
In a number data set, what do you get when you let the largest value subtract the smallest value?
Range
Here are the number of time (in minutes) 7 students spend on going from their homes to school by bike: 7 10 10 14 18 18 18. What is the median?
14.
Here are the height (in cm) of 10 kids in a baseball club. What is the range of their height? 140 145 147 144 150 148 155 153 142 150
15
Lisa asks 5 of her friends to know what their favourite food is. The result is listed as follows: Chicken/ pizza/ chips/ chicken/ chicken. Which food is the mode?
Chicken
'a' is the total value divided by the number of values. What is 'a'?
Mean
What is the mean of the shoe sizes in a family: 4, 6, 2, 8, 10?
6
Which average best describes the data (Mean or Median)? 3, 5, 2, 6, 8, 4, 20
Median because there is an outlier (20)
Which average best describes the data? 2, 4, 6, 3, 3, 7, 3, 5, 3, 3
Mode because '3' is repeated many times
