Question

One of the events in the Winter Olympics is the Men's 500-meter Speed Skating.

The times for this event are shown below.

Find the mean,mode,and median time

Answer 1

Answer:

Mean: $\bar x = 40.61$

$Median =40.2$

$Mode = 43.4$

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

See attachment for data

Solving (a): The mean

Mean is calculated as:

$\bar x = \frac{\sum x}{n}$

From the attached:

$n = 14$

So, the mean is:

$\bar x = \frac{43.4+43.4+43.4+43.1+43.2+40.2+40.2+40.1+40.3+39.44+39.17+38.03+38.19+36.45}{14}$

$\bar x = \frac{568.58}{14}$

$\bar x = 40.61$

Solving (b): The median

$n = 14$; this is an even number. So, the median is:

$Median = \frac{1}{2}(n+1)$

$Median = \frac{1}{2}(14+1)$

$Median = \frac{1}{2}(15)$

$Median = 7.5th$

This implies that the median is the average of the 7th and 8th item.

Next, is to order the data (in ascending order): 36.45, 38.03, 38.19, 39.17, 39.44, 40.1, 40.2, 40.2, 40.3, 43.1, 43.2, 43.4, 43.4, 43.4.

The 7th and 8th items are: 40.2 and 40.2

The median is:

$Median = \frac{1}{2}(40.2 + 40.2)$

$Median = \frac{1}{2}*80.4$

$Median =40.2$

Solving (c): The mode

43.4 has the highest number of occurrence.

So:

$Mode = 43.4$