Project Chapter 3
⦁ For the following data:
Variable: Number of books read by subject per year
X: 12, 8, 6, 7, 25, 23, 11, 12, 13, 10, 11, 7, 8, 7, 8, 11, 8, 9, 9.
⦁ Find the Mean, Median and Mode for the data above.
⦁ What is the shape of your distribution?
⦁ Do any of the data points look like possible outliers? Explain your answer.
⦁ Write one characteristic of the mean that does NOT apply to the other measures of central tendency.
⦁ Write one characteristic of the median that does NOT apply to the other measures of central tendency.
⦁ Write one characteristic of the mode that does NOT apply to the other measures of central tendency.
⦁ The table below shows the distribution of (X) Number of Children in Your Family.
X f
10 2
9 0
8 0
7 0
6 0
5 3
4 8
3 12
2 11
1 8
⦁ Find the Mean, Median and Mode.
⦁ What is the shape of the distribution?
⦁ REMOVE the subjects X = 10 and calculate the Mean, the Median and the Mode.
⦁ Explain the differences (changes between measures of central tendency, changes in the shape of the distribution) between your answers for a and c.
⦁ Calculate all possible measures of central tendency from the frequency table below. Explain your answer.
