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Practice
- Which of the following measures can be determined for quantitative data only?
a. mean
b. median
c. mode
d. none of these - Which of the following measures can be calculated for qualitative data only?
a. mean
b. median
c. mode
d. all of these - What is the term used to describe the distribution of a data set that has 1 mode?
a. multimodal
b. unimodal
c. nonmodal
d. bimodal - What is the mode of the following numbers, which represent the ages of 8 hockey players? 12, 11, 14, 10, 8,
13, 11, 9
a. 11
b. 10
c. 14
d. 8 - Which of the following measures can have more than 1 value for a set of data?
a. median
b. mode
c. mean
d. none of these - What are the modes of the following sets of numbers?
a. 3, 13, 6, 8, 10, 5, 6
b. 12, 0, 15, 15, 13, 19, 16, 13, 16, 16 - A student recorded her scores on weekly English quizzes that were marked out of a possible 10 points. Her
scores were as follows:
8 , 5 , 8 , 5 , 7 , 6 , 7 , 7 , 5 , 7 , 5 , 5 , 6 , 6 , 9 , 8 , 9 , 7 , 9 , 9 , 6 , 8 , 6 , 6 , 7
What is the mode of her scores on the weekly English quizzes?
- The following table represents the number of minutes that students spent studying for a math test:
TABLE5.23:
Studying Time (minutes) Number of Students
[ 0 − 10 ) 2
[ 10 − 20 ) 10
[ 20 − 30 ) 6
[ 30 − 40 ) 4
[ 40 − 50 ) 3