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Statistics: data & averages
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The mean of a list of values?Answer
Sum of the values ÷ number of values. So the total is mean × number of values.
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How do you find the median of a list?Answer
Sort the values first, then take the middle one, at position . With an even number of values, go halfway between the two middle ones.
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In a frequency table, 12 students scored 65, the largest group. What is the mode?Know it
The mean of a frequency table?Answer
. Divide by the total frequency, not by the number of columns.
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For the class 21–30, what are the boundaries, the width and the class mark?Answer
Boundaries 20.5 and 30.5; width (not 9); class mark .
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The mean of grouped data?Know it
The assumed mean method?Answer
Pick an assumed mean , a class mark near the middle, and let . Then .
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The median of grouped data?Answer
, where is the lower boundary of the median class, the cumulative frequency before it, its frequency and its width.
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The mode of grouped data?Answer
, where and are how far the modal class's frequency is above the classes before and after it.
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The angle of a sector in a pie chart?Answer
. With percentages, . Draw the sectors with a protractor.
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Bar chart or histogram?Answer
Separate values (scores 1 to 6): a bar chart, with gaps. Classes of continuous data: a histogram, with bars drawn from the class boundaries and no gaps.
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Marks 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Frequency 1 4 3 5 2 2 The table shows the distribution of marks of students in a Mathematics test. If the mean of the distribution is 6, calculate the:
value of ;
How do you find ?Which method?
The table shows the frequency distribution of the ages of fifty members of a family.
Ages (years) 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 Frequency 7 12 4 6 11 10 Calculate, correct to two decimal places, the:
mean;
What do you use as for each class?Answer
The class mark, the middle of each class: 3, 8, 13, …. Then , or use an assumed mean to keep the numbers small.
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