Mean, Mode, Median

Question 1

What does the median mean?

Answer 1

It is the middle number in a sorted ascending or descending list of numbers

Question 2

What is the mode?

Answer 2

Mode is the value that appears most frequently

Question 3

James has a spinner he gets result of 2 5 6 4 4 1 3
what is the median
what is the mode

Answer 3

the median is 4

the mode is 4

Question 4

what is a mean

Answer 4

The mean, or average, is calculated by adding up the scores and dividing the total by the number of scores.

Question 5

what is the range

Answer 5

he range is the difference between the highest and lowest values in a set of numbers. To find it, subtract the lowest number in the distribution from the highest

Question 6

4. A football team played six games.
   Here are the number of goals they scored in each game:
   6 ,3,2,2,5
   (a) Work out the median number of goals scored.
   (b) Work out the mean number of goals scored.

Answer 6

a median 2.5

b mean is 3

Question 7

Miss Jones gives her class a test.
The test is out of 40 marks.
 Here are their scores.
31,29,20,35,32,38,32
 (a) Work out the mode.
(b) Work out the median.
 (c) Work out the range.

Answer 7

mode 32
median 32
range 18

Question 8

Chloe records the number of minutes she spends on her mobile phone over “ 7 days.
8,5,13,6,24,19,10
Find the median.

Answer 8

median 10 minutes

Question 9

Here are the ages of 9 children at a birthday party.
10 2 13 10 11 14 15 10 12

Work out the range.
Work out the mean.
Find out the median.

Answer 9

the range 5
the mode 10
the median 12