Mean Mode Median Range

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Mean Median Mode Range
Mean median and mode are three kinds of averages They can be the same answer for a particular data set or they can be different When you read an article in a magazine and it says the average it is helpful to know what kind of average is being talked about
Example A family has children aged 3 4 5 3 6 find the mean median and mode
Mode the number that appears the most often
3 appears twice the other numbers only once 3 is the mode A list can have more than one mode or no mode at all
Median The number in the middle of the list
First put the numbers in order 3 3 4 5 6
The number in the middle is 4 4 is the median
If a list has an even number of elements the median is the mean of the middle two numbers
Mean Mean is the kind of average you have used before
1 Add the numbers 3 3 4 5 6 21
2 Divide by how many numbers were in the list There are 5 numbers in the list
21 5 4 2
Practice
a Find the mean median and mode of the following set 7 5 4 6 3 8 2 5 4 6 4 7 6
b Find the mean median and mode of the following 2 2 3 3 4
c Find the mean median and mode of the following 2 34 12 3 3 4 4 2 1 5 32
d Find the mean median and mode of the following 6 6 6 6 4 4 15 30
e Find the mean median and mode of the following 2 101 3 5 1 2 3 3 6
f Jack has taken 4 of 5 GED tests with the following scores Math 480 Literature 430 Science 460 Social studies 400 He needs a mean of 450 to pass What score will he need to get on his last test to have a mean of 450 What is the median and mode of the scores
g A class has 15 students The mean age of the class is 29 years The mode is 21 with 3 students at that age Two students are 18 Others are aged 16 19 27 31 35 37 40 40 and 54 What is the age of the last student What is the median
Mean median and mode help describe the center of the data
Look at one student s test scores 40 50 60 70 70 70 80 90 100
Compare to another student s scores 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70
The mean median and mode are the same but just by looking it can be seen the data sets are very different
Range tells how spread out the data is In the first list the student scores are spread out While the scores in second list are all the same
The range is found by subtracting the smallest from the largest number in the list The range in the first set of student scores is 100 40 60 the range for the second set is 0
Practice Find the range for the data sets on the previous section for a through e