Measures of Center Answers

There are 8 sophomores on the academic team. At the last competition, they each took the math test. Their scores were 82%, 92%, 76%, 72%, 92%, 74%, 80%, and 78%. What was the median math score of the sophomores?

Ms. Redmon gave her theater students an assignment to memorize a dramatic monologue to present to the rest of the class. The graph shows the times, rounded to the nearest half minute, of the first 10 monologues presented.

Quinn mailed four postcards that each cost $0.25, five letters that each cost $0.44, two large envelopes that each cost $0.80, and one small package for $5.10. Which cost on the list of mailing fees on Quinn’s receipt would skew the mean?

Tristan records the number of customers who visit the store each hour on a Saturday. His data representing the first seven hours are 15, 23, 12, 28, 20, 18, and 23. How many customers visited the store during the eighth hour if the median number of customers per hour did not change?

Which could be Brooke’s sixth quiz score? Select three options.

The graph shows the number of pages in each chapter of a book that Josh is reading.

The data show the number of pieces of mail delivered to a single home address each day for three weeks.4, 0, 2, 6, 1, 0, 3, 4, 0, 2, 4, 1, 5, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2Which statement is true about a graph representing the data? Select two options.The number line of a dot plot would start at 1.A dot plot would show 7 points for numbers greater than 2.The intervals on a histogram should be 0 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 6.A histogram would have a maximum of 7 bars.A histogram should not show a bar that includes 0 pieces of mail.

The table shows the heights, in inches, of players on a girls’ basketball team.

Colin surveyed 12 teachers at his school to determine how much each person budgets for lunch. He recorded his results in the table.What does the relationship between the mean and median reveal about the shape of the data?

Ms. Monroe mixes 200 cubes of 4 different colors for a project. She then uses a scoop to place 20 cubes into each of 10 paper bags. Each group records the number of cubes of each color in a bag. The number of red cubes for the 10 groups are recorded in the graph.