Central Tendency and Weather

The measure of Central Tendency is....

• The middle part of the data

• The average of a data set

• How often I measure data

• I don't know

Mode means....

• The value or number that appears most often

• The size of the number

• The value of all the numbers together

• The number that appears the least amount of times

The mean of a set of numbers is ....

• Adding up all the numbers and recording the total number

• Minus the smallest number from the largest number

• The average of all the numbers - the total amount divided by how many there are in the group

• The average of all the numbers - you multiply them all together

Median is.....

• The first number minus the second number

• The last number

• The middle number, without changing the order of the numbers

• The middle number, when all numbers are lined up in order

I know the Range is ...

• The difference between the highest and lowest value

• The highest and lowest number added together

• The highest number minus the second highest number

• The two smallest numbers added together

The temperature in Celsius for this week was: 27, 28, 27, 21, 23, 27, 27. What was the Mode temperature?

• 28

• 27

• 21

• 23

Find the Mean temperature for this week at school: 15, 20, 23, 20, 22.

• 22

• 19

• 17

• 20

What is the Range of these temperatures in Alice Springs last week?

25, 26, 22, 29, 20, 21, 27

• 29

• 9

• 8

• 7

This week the forecast for Perth predicts the temperature will be:

16, 17, 17, 15, 17, 16, 14.

What is the Median temperature going to be?

• 16

• 17

• 14

• 15

If 5mls of rainfall falls in Perth on Monday, 2ml on Tuesday and 10ml on Wednesday, what is the Range of rainfall in Perth on those days?

• 5

• 2

• 10

• 8