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Worksheet 1 GRADE 12

1. The document discusses measures of spread, specifically range and standard deviation. Range is the difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set. Standard deviation represents the average distance of data points from the mean. 2. It provides steps to calculate standard deviation: find the difference from the mean, square each difference, add the squared differences, divide by the number of entries, and take the square root. 3. Several examples are given to calculate range and standard deviation for different data sets and determine if data points are outliers based on the standard deviation.

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Worksheet 1 GRADE 12

1. The document discusses measures of spread, specifically range and standard deviation. Range is the difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set. Standard deviation represents the average distance of data points from the mean. 2. It provides steps to calculate standard deviation: find the difference from the mean, square each difference, add the squared differences, divide by the number of entries, and take the square root. 3. Several examples are given to calculate range and standard deviation for different data sets and determine if data points are outliers based on the standard deviation.

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MBF 3C - Worksheet

UNIT 8 – MEASURES OF SPREAD Page 1/2

• Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) are values around which a set of data tends to
cluster.

• However, to analyze a set of data, it is useful to know the how spread out the data are.

• Measures of spread describe how the values in a set of data are distributed.

• In statistics there are 2 main measures of spread.

• These measures allow us to determine how much our data is spread out. They also allow us to
compare multiple data sets.

RANGE

→ The range is found by subtracting the minimum value in our data set from the maximum
value.

STANDARD DEVIATION

→ Standard deviation is another measure of how spread out the values in a set of data are from the
mean.

→ The standard deviation represents the typical distance of a particular data value from the mean.

→ The greater the standard deviation, the greater the spread of the data; the smaller the standard
deviation, the less spread out the data.

Steps:

1. Find the difference between each value and the mean.


2. Square each difference.
3. Add up all the squared differences.
4. Divide this number by the number of entries.
5. Take the square root of this answer. (This is the standard deviation)
MBF 3C - Worksheet
UNIT 8 – MEASURES OF SPREAD Page 2/2

Practice:

1. True or False? The standard deviation cannot be negative.

2. Calculate the range and standard deviation of each.


a) 4, 8, 6, 3, 12, 9, 7, 6 b) 35, 38, 40, 43, 46, 23, 38
c) 2.4, 4.3, 6.5, 1.1, 8.9, 3.6, 7.2, 9.6 d) 4.55, 3.23, 6.78, 3.54, 5.54, 6.78

3. The machine packaging cookies has been considered defective. The packages are labelled as
containing 150g. A sample of 15 packages was selected and the masses are given.

145, 151, 152, 150, 147, 152, 149, 148, 153, 150, 146, 152, 148, 149, 151

a) Calculate the mean.


b) If any packages are more than 2.2g from the mean, the package is not sold. How many are
defective?
c) Should the machine be fixed?

4. A group of student landscapers are to keep track of their own weekly hours. They are listed below.

44, 52, 43, 39, 42, 41, 38, 43, 46, 45, 44, 39, 40, 42, 45

a) Find the range. Is this a useful tool for representing this data?
b) Find the mean.
c) Find the standard deviation.
d) What can be said about the entry of 52 hours/week?
e) Calculate the standard deviation again without the 52 hours/week entry.

5. The sale prices of the last 10 homes sold in 1985 were: $198 000, $185 000, $205 200,
$225 300, $206 700, $201 850, $200 000, $189 000, $192 100, $200 400.

a) What is the average sale price?


b) What is the standard deviation?
c) Do you think that a price of $240 000 would be considered unusual? Why or why not?

6. The sales price of the last 10 homes sold in 2005 were: $345 500, $467 800, $289 000,
$675 000, $398 500, $243 000, $899 950, $453 000, $239 000, $256 000.

a) What is the average sales price?


b) What is the standard deviation?
c) Which year was more consistent? How do you know?
SOLUTIONS

1. true 2. a) range = 9; s.d. = 2.85 b) range = 23; s.d. = 7.37 c) range = 8.5; s.d. = 3.08 d) range = 3.55; s.d. =
1.55 3. a) 149.5 b) 7 4. a) 14; yes, to ensure that students are being honest when recording the number of hours
worked b) 42.9 c) 3.50 d) answers may vary; for example: over-inflated e) 2.52 5. a) $200 355 b) 11 189.04
c) yes, based on the standard deviation, it would be an extremely high value 6. a) $426 675
b) 214 078.1 c) 1985; smaller range of values

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