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Central Tendency Word Problems

1. Mr. Winters times the speed of his

sprinters every Friday. This week he had
them run from one school building to the next.
There times were in seconds were:

52.6, 61.3, 74.8, 78.2, 86.2, 48.7, 98.2, 78.2, 49.8, 73.5

A. What was the mean time?

B. What was the most frequent time (mode)?

C. What was the range of the time? _

2. Mrs. Jenkins’s job is to see if her company’s employees

are being paid relatively equally based on their
responsibilities. She needs to review all employee records
floor by floor. The third floor manager , Larry, volunteers
to go first. Mrs. Jenkins surveyed the salaries of all the
third floor staff and finds the following annual salaries:

$35,000, $42,000, $36,000, $74,000, $38,000, $40,000,

$39,000

A. What is mean salary of this floor?

B. What is the range of the salary?

C. Which salary is probably Larry’s salary?

3. Create a data set such that the median is 19, the

mode is 24, and the mean is 25.

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Answer Key

1A. 70.15 seconds

1B. 78.2 seconds

1C. 49.5 seconds

2A. $43,429

2B. $39,000

2C. $74,000

3. Answer will vary.

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