CHAPTER 8:
Statistics
Learning Targets Practice Questions
Section (I can…) (circle or highlight all completed Q’s)
8.3a Measures of central tendency in statistics p. 289 # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Challenge!!! # 8, 9
8.3b Who are we? Finding patterns in the Grade 9s Make a histogram with our class data.
Challenge: Find a correlation within our class data.
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8.3A – Central Tendency
Target(s): Calculate the mean, median, and mode of a set of data.
Statistics is the collection and analysis of ____________________ amounts of data to understand a
___________________ or a __________________________ of a population.
When you have a large amount of data. you might want to know what is the “typical” value of that
data.
Let’s look at some salaries at a factory:
Worker..................... $20 000 What is the typical salary at the factory?
Worker..................... $26 000
Worker..................... $28 000
Worker..................... $28 000
Worker..................... $28 000 Union members and management of a company have a
Worker..................... $44 000 debate over salaries.
Worker..................... $44 000 ● The union says the typical employee salary is
Foreman................... $48 000 $28,000 per year.
Vice President.......... $96 000 ● Management says that the typical employee salary is
President................ $138 000 $50,000 per year.
● A third party arbitrator says that the typical
The total payroll is $500 000 employee salary is $36,000 per year.
Measures of Central Tendency
(What is the _______________________ value of a set of data?)
Mean Median Mode
The average number. Add all Put the values in order from The most frequently
the values together and divide smallest to largest, the median occurring number. There can
them by the number of is the middle value. If there is be more than one mode.
values. an even number of values,
average the two middle
values.
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Ex 1. Sharra collects data about the number of cats her friends own:
2, 0, 3, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0
Find the mean, median, and mode of cat ownership amongst Sharra’s friends.
Ex 2. Sunny collected information about how much their friends earn for allowance a week, and
organized it into a frequency table. Find the mean, median, and mode of the allowances.
Allowance per week Frequency
$0 2
$10 4
$15 4
$20 3
Ex. 3 Perteek’s math grades are calculated as follows: 40% tests, 25% Final exam, 15%
homework, and 20% quizzes. Perteek’s averages are as follows:
● 78% on tests
● 65% on the final exam
● 100% on homework
● 85% on quizzes
Calculate Perteek’s overall grade (this is a “weighted average” or weighted mean grade!!):
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8.3B – Visualizing Data
Target(s): Construct histograms of data.
Histograms look like bar graphs, except that the bars represent________________ of numbers
that are of equal size. Intervals can be
● single numbers (like the number of cats owned by household: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4…)
● or a range of numbers (like grades in math: 0-25%, 25-50%, 50-75%, 75-100%)
The height of each bar depends on the ___________________, the number of items in each
interval.
Intervals are all values between two numbers, (including the __________________________)
In the histogram above:
● The interval 20-30 would include any number greater than or equal to 20 and up to 30
(but not ________________________) .
● What is the width of the intervals? ________________________________
● What is the most common grade earned?___________________________
● What do you think would be the mean grade earned?__________________
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Ex. 1 In order to set a reasonable price for a bottomless cup of coffee, a restaurant owner recorded
the number of cups each customer ordered on a typical afternoon.
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Create a frequency table and bar graph to display the information
Cups of coffee Frequency
Ex 2. 1) The number of hot dogs sold by a street vendor for each day in the month of June is
recorded below. Construct a histogram to display the data.
112 98 108 128 24 30 89 106 48 34 16
71 122 71 102 118 53 76 76 25 72 52
33 122 33 109 109 110 116 21
Hotdogs sold/ day Frequency
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