Choose the Best of Central Tendency

Which measure of central tendency best represents this set of data:
13, 13, 11, 13, 13, 12, 13

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

If you score 76, 85, 97, and 83 on your math tests, what would your median score be? 

• 84

• 90

• 85

• 88

Find the mean of these numbers:
5, 11, 2, 12, 4, 2

• 4.1

• 6

• 4.5

• 4

The salary of the employees in the office were $15,000; $18,000; $16,000; $14,000; $90,000; and $17,000.  What is the best measure of the central tendency of the salaries?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

Match the circumstances within the data set to determine which measure of central tendency would be the most appropriate.

• Mode

• The data has many repeated values or

  The data is qualitative (categorical)

• Median

• There are no outliers

• Mean

• There are outliers or

  The middle of the data does not contain big gaps

What is the best measure of this data?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

Match the following vocabulary with the definitions

• Mode

• the difference between the largest and smallest values in a data set

• Range

• the average of values, sum of all values divided by how many values

• Mean

• the most frequently occurring value(s)

• Median

• the middle value, when the data is ordered from least to greatest

What is the median number of miles Sally ran? HINT: Median is like medium... It's in the middle.

Mathematical Equivalence

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What is the best measure of this data?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

What is the best measure of this data?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range