Lecture 5

Mean and Others

Higher National Diploma BTEC

Unit 6: Business Decision Making
Tutor: Solomon

Mean, Median, Mode &

Range

Mean, Median, Mode are

all types of average. An
average summarises
groups of data.

Mean
Average often means the mean
Mean = total of the numbers divided
by how many numbers.
Class shoe sizes: 3, 5, 5, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, 6
Add up the numbers:
3 + 5 + 5 + 6 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 + 5 + 6 = 40
Divide by how many numbers:
40 10 = 4

The class mean shoe size is 4

Median
Median is the middle value
Put the numbers in order
Choose the number in the middle of
the list.
If there are 2 numbers in the middle
then it is halfway between them.
Class shoe sizes: 3, 5, 5, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, 6
Put in order: 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6
The class median shoe size is 4.5

Mode
Mode is the most common number
Put the numbers in order
Choose the number that appears the
most frequently.
Sometimes there may be more than
one mode.
Class shoe sizes: 3, 5, 5, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, 6
Put in order: 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6
The class modal shoe size is 5.

Range
Range is how far from biggest to
smallest.
Put the numbers in order
Take the smallest number from the
largest.
Class shoe sizes: 3, 5, 5, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, 6
Put in order: 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6
Subtract smallest from largest: 6 1 = 5
Range: 5

These are Abbys science test scores.

86

97

84

73

63

88

97

100

95

What can you tell us about these

numbers?
86
73
97

97
63
100

84
88
95

What is the MEAN?

How do we find it?
The mean is the numerical
average of the data set.
The mean is found by adding all
the values in the set, then
dividing the sum by the number
of values.

97
84
88

Lets find Abbys

MEAN science test
score?

783

100

95
63
73
86

+ 97

The mean is 87

783

Questions Welcomed