Measures of Center Answers

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.

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

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?

The graph shows the ages of different concertgoers who have backstage passes.

Mr. Li records the measures of the lengths of his students’ handprints. The lengths, in centimeters, are shown in the table.If the class creates a histogram of the data in the table, how many students are in the range 12 cm to 13.9 cm?

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.

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

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 graph shows the number of minutes, to the nearest five minutes, that Sarah spent getting ready for school each morning.

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?