Lesson 1 Worksheet– Descriptive Statistics (LO1)
Topics: Mean, Median, Mode, Range, SD, Variance, Rounding rules
1) Which of the following is the properly rounded mean for the given data?
7, 8, 13, 9, 10, 11
A) 10 B) 9.7 C) 9.67 D) 9
2) What is the median of the following set of values?
9, 7, 4, 2, 13
A) 4 B) 6 C) 7 D) 8
3) Find the mode for the following data?
5, 4, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 5, 3, 4
A) 3 B) 4 C) 5 D) 6
4) What is the range of the following data set?
1, 7, 6, 8, 0, 8, 14, 14, 14
A) 7 B) 8 C) 1 D) 14
5) Find the mean of the following data set?
9, 4, 7, 2, 13
A) 4.0 B) 6.0 C) 7.0 D) 8.0
6) What is the median of the following data set?
2, 5, 9, 10, 14
A) 8 B) 9 C) 10 D) 12
7) The number of police officers in selected city districts is listed below. Find
the mode.
24, 26, 24, 30, 23, 28, 19, 31, 24, 26, 19
A) 23 B) 24 C) 26 D) 28
8) Find the mean, mode and median for the following data set.
12, 15, 18, 18, 15, 22, 15, 30, 12
Mean: 1.44
Median: 15
Mode: 15
9) Find the mean of the following set of values.
3, 10, 8, 6, 8
Mean: 7
10) Find the median of the following data set.
6, 13, 10, 9, 6
Median: 9
11) Find the median for the following data.
6, 7, 4, 5, 3, 7, 4
A) 3 B) 4 C) 5 D) 7
12) State True or False: for the data set 1, 8, 7, 2, 9, 15, 18, the properly
rounded mean is 9.
True
13) What is the mean of the following data set?
3, 7, 10, 11, 12
A) 6.0 B) 8.6 C) 10.0 D) 13.4
14) What is the median of the following set of values?
6, 20, 18, 14, 18, 13, 14, 18
A) 12 B) 16 C) 14 D) 18
15) What is the mode of the following data set?
2, 16, 14, 10, 14, 12, 9
A) 8 B) 12 C) 10 D) 14
16) Find the mean of the following data set.
8, 10, 10, 10, 8, 14
Mean: 10
17) Find the median of the following data set.
7, 9, 9, 9, 7, 13
Median: 9
18) The range of the following data set is _______.
5, 1, 10, 18, 8
18-1=1
18) Ten friends scored the following marks in their end-of-year math exam.
23%, 37%, 45%, 49%, 56%, 63%, 63%, 70%, 72% and 82%
Considering this as a sample, what was the standard deviation of their marks?
SD= 0.1778
0.2
19) A book consisting of 200 pages has 12 pages with the following numbers of
words:
271, 354, 296, 301, 333, 326, 285, 298, 327, 316, 287 and 314
What is the standard deviation of the number of words per page?
SD = 23.63
= 24
Challenge Question:
20) Emma rolled a die a number of times and recorded her results in a bar
graph, as follows:
What was the variance of Emma’s experiment?
21) The three data sets have the same mean and range, but is the variation
same? Prove your answer by computing the standard deviation. Assume
the data were obtained from samples.
a. 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17
b. 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17
c. 5, 5, 5, 11, 17, 17, 17
22) The normal daily high temperatures (in degree Fahrenheit) in January for
10 selected cities are as follows.
50, 37, 29, 54, 30, 61, 47, 38, 34, 61
The normal monthly precipitation (in inches) for these same cities is listed
here.
4.8, 2.6, 1.5, 1.8, 1.8, 3.3, 5.1, 1.1, 1.8, 2.5
Which set is more variable? Explain your answer.
Daily= 11.5277925
Monthly=1.302344041
The daily temperatures is largest variance so its more variable
23) The net worth (in billions of dollars) of a sample of the richest people in the
United States is shown. Find the mean, median, mode, variance and
standard deviation for the data.
59 52 28 26 19 19 18 17 17 17
Mean = 27.2
Median = 19
Mode= 17
Variance = 14.69 ( 14.7)
SD= 15.49 ( 15.5)
24) The following data are the joint temperatures of the O-rings (°F) for each
test firing or actual launch of the space shuttle rocket motor (from
Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Vol. 1,
pp. 129–131):
84, 49, 61, 40, 83, 67, 45, 66, 70, 69, 80, 58, 68, 60, 67, 72, 73, 70, 57, 63,
70, 78, 52, 67, 53, 67, 75, 61, 70, 81, 76, 79, 75, 76, 58, 31.
(a) Compute the sample mean and sample standard deviation.
(b) Set aside the smallest observation and re-compute the quantities in part
(a). Comment on your findings. How “different” are the other
temperatures from this last value?
