Exercise Answers: Module 28

Mean, Median, Mode

1. $
2. $
3. $
4. $
5. $
6. $
7. the median is more representative because the mean is higher than five of the six home values.
8. AT&T Mobility
9. Samoas and Thin Mints
10. games
11. games
12. games
13. they all represent the data fairly well; wins represents a typical Patriots season.
14. games
15. games
16. games
17. they all represent the data fairly well; or wins represents a typical Bills season.
18. grams; the mean doesn’t seem to represent a typical clementine because there is a group of smaller ones (from to grams) and a group of larger ones (from to grams) with none in the middle.
19. grams; for the same reason, the median doesn’t represent a typical clementine, but you could say it helps split the clementines into a lighter group and a heavier group.
20. there is no mode because too many values appear twice.
21. grams; this is a small increase over the previous mean.
22. grams; the median does not change when one of the highest numbers increases.
23. grams; you might say it represents the mass of a typical large clementine, but it doesn’t represent the entire group.

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