STAAR Review 5 - Mean Absolute Deviation

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Mean Absolute Deviation

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The average distance between the data values and the mean

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What is the first step when calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation?

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Find the mean of the data

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What is the second step when calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation? Options: Find the distance each value is from the mean, Find the mean of the distances, Find the mean of the data

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Find the distance each value is from the mean

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What is the third step when calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation? Options: Find the distance each value is from the mean, Find the mean of the distances, Find the mean of the data

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Find the mean of the distances

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Find the Mean Absolute Deviation: 10, 9, 3, 8, 10. The Mean is 8

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What is another word for average?

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Mean

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Which mean absolute deviation would have a greater variability or spread? 4.2 or 8.5?

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8.5

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Find the Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) for the data set: 10, 9, 3, 8, 10.

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Find the MAD:
58, 38, 54, 48, 26, 36

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10

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Mean absolute deviation of the numbers: 10, 8, 5, 12, 20

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4