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The document is a homework assignment focused on measures of central tendency, including mean, median, and mode, with multiple-choice questions and short answer prompts. It covers various scenarios and properties related to these statistical measures. Students are required to calculate and explain concepts related to central tendency using provided data sets.

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Chapter 3 Homework

The document is a homework assignment focused on measures of central tendency, including mean, median, and mode, with multiple-choice questions and short answer prompts. It covers various scenarios and properties related to these statistical measures. Students are required to calculate and explain concepts related to central tendency using provided data sets.

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Measures of Central Tendency Homework Dr.

McQuiston

____ 1. What is the value of the mean for the following set of scores? 1, 3, 5, 0, 1
a. 10
b. 5
c. 2.5
d. 2
____ 2. A sample of n = 5 scores has a mean of M = 9. What is X for this sample?
a. 9/5 = 1.80
b. 5/9 = 0.555
c. 5(9) = 45
d. cannot be determined from the information given
____ 3. Which of the following is a property of the mean?
a. changing the value of a score will change the value of the mean
b. adding a constant to each score will add the same constant to the mean
c. multiplying each score by a constant will multiply the mean by the same constant
d. All 3 of the other choices are correct.
____ 4. The value of one score in a distribution is changed from X = 20 to X = 30. Which measure(s) of
central tendency is (are) certain to be changed?
a. the mean
b. the median
c. the mean and the median
d. the mode
____ 5. What is the median for the following set of scores? 1, 3, 9, 10, 22
a. 6
b. 9
c. 9.5
d. 11
____ 6. What is the median for the following set of scores? 1, 4, 6, 17
a. 4
b. 5
c. 6
d. 7
____ 7. A teacher gave a reading test to a class of 5th-grade students and computed the mean, median, and
mode for the test scores. Which of the following statements cannot be an accurate description of
the scores?
a. The majority of the students had scores above the mean.
b. The majority of the students had scores above the median.
c. The majority of the students had scores above the mode.
d. All of the other options are false statements.
____ 8. A distribution can have more than one __________.
a. mean
b. median
c. mode
d. None of the other choices is correct.
____ 9. For a distribution of scores, the mean is equal to the median. This distribution is most likely to be
__________.
a. symmetrical
b. positively skewed
c. negatively skewed
d. impossible to determine the shape
____ 10. For a perfectly symmetrical distribution with = 30, the median would have a value __________.
a. equal to 30
b. greater than 30
c. less than 30
d. cannot be determined from the information given
____ 11. For a positively skewed distribution with = 30, the median would have a value __________.
a. equal to 30
b. greater than 30
c. less than 30
d. cannot be determined from the information given
____ 12. A distribution is positively skewed. Which is the most probable order for the three measures of
central tendency?
a. mean = 40, median = 50, mode = 60
b. mean = 60, median = 50, mode = 40
c. mean = 40, median = 60, mode = 50
d. mean = 50, median = 50, mode = 50
____ 13. In a negatively skewed distribution of exam scores, Tom scored at the mean, Mary scored at the
median, and Jane scored at the mode. Who had the highest score?
a. Tom
b. Mary
c. Jane
d. cannot be determined from the information given
____ 14. The most commonly used measure of central tendency is __________.
a. the mean
b. the median
c. the mode
d. the range
____ 15. For an extremely skewed distribution of scores the best measure of central tendency would be
__________.
a. the mean
b. the median
c. the mode
d. Central tendency cannot be determined for a skewed distribution
Short Answer
16. Explain why it is necessary to have more than one standard procedure for defining and measuring
central tendency. You should list several reasons here.

17. For the following set of scores, identify which measure would provide the best description of
central tendency and explain your answer. Scores: 0, 30, 31, 33, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38.

18. Find the mean, the median, and the mode for the set of scores in the frequency distribution table
below.

X f
5 2
4 3
3 2
2 2
1 1
19. Find the mean, the median, and the mode for the set of scores in the frequency distribution
histogram below.

20. A set of n = 7 scores has a mean of M = 10. Another set of scores has n = 3 and M = 20. If these
two sets of scores are combined, what is the mean for the combined group?

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