Question

Suppose your Unit Quiz grades have been: 85%, 80%, 96%, 72%, 78%, 85% and 92%

a) What is your average/mean score?

b) What is the median score?

c) What is the mode score?

d) Why is the mean lower than the median?

e) What will your mean be if you get a perfect score of 100% on your next quiz?

Answer 1

Answer:

mean: 84

median: 85

mode: 85

explainations for d and e below.

Step-by-step explanation:

mean:

(85+80+96+72+78+85+92)/7 = 544/7 = 84

median:

sort them in order from least to greatest first

72, 78, 80, 85, 85, 92, 96

find the middle number in that order, that's your median. in this case, it's 85.

mode:

number that appears the most in the order; the frequency. in this case as well, it's also 85.

answer for d:

the reason why the mean is lower than the median is because of the fact we were figuring out the average and had to divide, unlike the median where it's just the middle of the order we have.

answer for e:

(85+80+96+72+78+85+92+100)/8 = 644/8 = 80.5%

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