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Find The Mean, Median, Mode, and Range For The Following List of Values

The document defines and provides examples to calculate the mean, median, mode, and range of data sets. It explains that the mean is the regular average calculated by adding all values and dividing by the total number. The median is the middle value when data is listed in numerical order. The mode is the value that occurs most frequently. The range is the difference between the highest and lowest values. It provides examples to demonstrate calculating these statistics for various data sets.

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Find The Mean, Median, Mode, and Range For The Following List of Values

The document defines and provides examples to calculate the mean, median, mode, and range of data sets. It explains that the mean is the regular average calculated by adding all values and dividing by the total number. The median is the middle value when data is listed in numerical order. The mode is the value that occurs most frequently. The range is the difference between the highest and lowest values. It provides examples to demonstrate calculating these statistics for various data sets.

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Mean, Median, Mode, and Range

Mean, median, and mode are three kinds of "averages". There are many "averages" in statistics, but these are, I
think, the three most common, and are certainly the three you are most likely to encounter in your pre-statistics
courses, if the topic comes up at all.
The "mean" is the "average" you're used to, where you add up all the numbers and then divide by the number of
numbers. The "median" is the "middle" value in the list of numbers. To find the median, your numbers have to be
listed in numerical order, so you may have to rewrite your list first. The "mode" is the value that occurs most
often. If no number is repeated, then there is no mode for the list.
The "range" is just the difference between the largest and smallest values.
• Find the mean, median, mode, and range for the following list of values:
13, 18, 13, 14, 13, 16, 14, 21, 13
The mean is the usual average, so:
(13 + 18 + 13 + 14 + 13 + 16 + 14 + 21 + 13) ÷ 9 = 15
Note that the mean isn't a value from the original list. This is a common result. You should not assume
that your mean will be one of your original numbers.
The median is the middle value, so I'll have to rewrite the list in order:
13, 13, 13, 13, 14, 14, 16, 18, 21
There are nine numbers in the list, so the middle one will be the (9 + 1) ÷ 2 = 10 ÷ 2 = 5th number:
13, 13, 13, 13, 14, 14, 16, 18, 21
So the median is _________The mode is the number that is repeated more often than any other, so
__________ is the mode.
The largest value in the list is _______________ and the smallest is _________________ so the
range is ______________________________.
• Find the mean, median, mode, and range for the following list of values:
1, 2, 4, 7
The median is the middle number. In this example, the numbers are already listed in numerical order, so
I don't have to rewrite the list. But there is no "middle" number, because there is an even number of
numbers. In this case, the median is the mean (the usual average) of the middle two values:
The mode is the number that is repeated most often, but all the numbers in this list appear only once, so
there is no mode.

The largest value in the list is ______________ the smallest is ________________, and their
difference is _______________, so the range is ______________________.
mean:
median:
mode:
range:
The list values were whole numbers, but the mean was a decimal value. Getting a decimal value for the mean
(or for the median, if you have an even number of data points) is perfectly okay; don't round your answers to try
to match the format of the other numbers.
• Find the mean, median, mode, and range for the following list of values:
 8, 9, 10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11, 12, 13
mean:
median:

modes:
range:
While unusual, it can happen that two of the averages (the mean and the median, in this case) will have the
same value.
About the only hard part of finding the mean, median, and mode is keeping straight which "average" is which.
Just remember the following:
mean: regular meaning of "average"
median: middle value
mode: most often
(In the above, I've used the term "average" rather casually. The technical definition of "average" is the arithmetic
mean: adding up the values and then dividing by the number of values. Since you're probably more familiar with
the concept of "average" than with "measure of central tendency", I used the more comfortable term.)

• A student has gotten the following grades on his tests: 87, 95, 76, and 88. He wants an 85 or
better overall. What is the minimum grade he must get on the last test in order to achieve that
average?

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