MODULE – 11 (CENTER AND SPREAD)

1. The table above shows the distributions of

ages of the 20 students enrolled in a college
class. Which of the following gives the correct
order of the mean, median, and mode of the
ages?

A. Mode < Median < Mean

B. Mode < Mean < Median

C. Median < Mode < Mean

D. Mean < Mode < Median

2. 4,4,4,4,8,8,8,13,13

Which frequency table correctly represents

the data listed? 3. The frequency table summarizes the 57 data
values in a data set. What is the maximum data
value in the data set?

4. The average (arithmetic mean) of four

numbers is 15. If one of the numbers is 18,
what is the average (arithmetic mean) of the
remaining three numbers?

5. Ms. Aguila’s class, which has 20 students,

scored an average of 90 points on a test. Mr.
Bowle’s class, which has 30 students, scored an
average of 80 points on the same test. What
was the combined average score, in points, for
the two classes?
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9. The “absolute deviation” of a number in a

set is the absolute difference between that
number and the average (arithmetic mean) of
the set. The “mean absolute deviation” of a set
is the average (arithmetic mean) of all of the
absolute deviations in the set. Which of the
following sets has the greatest “mean absolute
deviation?”
6. The 20 students in Ms. Aguila’s class were A. 2, 2, 2, 2
asked how many smartphones their families
owned, and the results are tabulated above. B. 2, 3, 4, 5
What is the average number of phones per C. 4, 4, 5, 5
family for the 20 students in the class?
D. 4, 4, 4, 5
A. 3.2
10. The rage of a set of data is defined as the
B. 3.5 absolute difference between the least value
C. 4.0 and the greatest value in the set. If five positive
integers have an average (arithmetic mean) of
D. 4.2 10, what is the greatest possible “range” of this
set?
7. The median of 1, 6, 8, and k is 5. What is the 11. 15, 14, 18, 17, x
average (arithmetic mean) of these four
numbers? The mean and the median of the five numbers
above are equal. Which of the following is NOT
a possible value of x ?

A. 6

B. 11

C. 16

D. 21

12. If the median of 2, 4, 6, and b is 4.2, what is

the average (arithmetic mean) of these four
numbers?

8. The table above shows the result of 50 rolls 13. The median of a set of 22 consecutive even
of a die, with two missing values labelled a and integers is 25. What is the largest number in
b. If the mode of these 50 rolls is 2, what is the the set?
greatest possible average (arithmetic mean) 14. A set of four integers has a mode of 7 and
value of these rolls? a median of 4. What is the greatest possible
average (arithmetic mean) of this set?

A. 3.50
B. 3.75
C. 4.00
D. 4.25
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15.

Data set A : 72, 73, 73, 76, 76

Data Set B: 61, 64, 74, 85, X
Data set A and B each contain 5 numbers. If the
mean of data set A is equal to the mean of data
set B, what is the value of x?

A. 77

B. 85

C. 86

D. 95

16. For a school fund-raiser, 10 students sold a

total of 90 boxes of cookies. Which of the
following can be calculated from this 18.
information?
The table above shows the number of
A. The average number of boxes sold per international tourist arrivals, rounded to the
student nearest tenth of a million, to the top nine
B. The median number of boxes sold per tourist destinations in both 2012 and 2013.
student Based on the information given in the table,
how much greater, in millions, was the median
C. The greatest number of boxes sold by one number of international tourist arrivals to the
student top nine tourist destinations in 2013 than the
median number in 2012, to the nearest tenth
D. The least number of boxes sold by one
of a million?
student
19. For which of the following data sets is the
mean greater than the median?
17.
A. 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
B. 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80
C. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512
D. 7, 107, 107, 207, 207, 207, 307, 307, 307
20. The weights, in pounds, for 15 horses in a
stable were reported, and the mean, median,
Which statement is true based on the table? range, and standard deviation for the data
A. The group A data set was identical to the were found. The horse with the lowest.
Group B data set. Reported weight was found to actually weigh
10 pounds less than its reported weight. What
B. Group B contained the tallest participant. value remains unchanged if the four values are
C. The heights of the men in Group B had a reported using the corrected weight?
larger spread than the heights of the men in A. Mean
Group A. B. Median
D. The median height of Group B is larger than C. Range
the median height of Group A. D. Standard Deviation
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21. If a is the mean and b is the median of nine 24. In the set of numbers, 7, k , 11, 3, 8, 14, and
consecutive integers, what is the value of 17, the median is 11. Which of the following
|𝑎 − 𝑏|? could NOT be the value of k ?
A. 10
B. 12
C. 13
D. 16

22. The table above shows the number of

students from two different high schools who
completed summer internships in each of five
years. No student attended both schools.
Which of the following statements are true
about the number of students who completed 25. Charles, Gautam, and Brin participated in a
summer internships for the 5 years shown? snowboarding competition. The scores for
each of their six qualifying runs are shown in
1. The mean number from Foothill High School
the table above. According to the data, which
is greater than the mean number from Valley
High School. of the following is a valid conclusion?

A. Charles had the smallest mean score, so his

2. The median number from Foothill High
school is greater than the median number from performance was the least consistent.
valley High school. B. Gautam had the smallest standard
deviation, so his performance was the most
A. I only
consistent
B. II only
C. Charles had the largest standard deviation,
C. I and II Both so his performance was the most consistent
D. Neither I nor II D. Brin had the highest score on any one run,
so her performance was the most consistent.
23. The average, median, and mode are
calculated for the list 4, 4, 6, 10, 11. If the 26. A company produces an equal number of a
number 2 is added to the set, which of the certain product each working day in the
following will NOT change? month. The daily reject rates for the first 12
I. Average days of this month ranged from 0.0 percent to
II. Median
1.5 with an average of 0.4 percent. If there are
III. Mode
22 working days in this month and the
A. III only
B. II only company monthly reject goal is 0.5 percent or
C. I and II less, what is the maximum reject rate, as a
D. I, II and III percent, for the 13th day that would still
enable the company to attain its goal for the
month? (Round your answer to the nearest
tenth)
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29. If the average of x, y, and z is 12, what is the

average of 3x, 3y, and 3z?

30. In order to compensate for a difficult

midterm exam, Danielle’s mathematics
teacher adjusted each of the 25 students’
midterm exam scores by replacing it by one-
half of the original score increased by 50. If the
mean of the revised set of midterm scores is
82, what was the mean of the original set of
scores?

27. The graph above shows the average daily

temperature during a particular week in
January in a certain city. Which statement best
describes the temperature data in the graph
above?
A. Median = Mean
B. Mean < Mode
C. Median = Mode
D. Mean = Mode

28. The tables above give the distribution of

grades for 21 students in two different college
mathematics classes. For purposes of making
statistical calculations, A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1,
and F = 0. Which of the following statements is
true about the data shown for these two
classes?
I. The standard deviation of grades is greater
for class X.
II. The standard deviation of grades is greater
for class Y.
III. The median letter grade is the same for
classes X and Y.
A. I only
B. II only
C. I and III only
D. II and III only