The City School

Academic Year 2020-21

Class 8
Subject: Mathematics
Topic: Statistics
Worksheet # 15-B

Student’s Name: ___________________ Date: ___________

Objective:
By completing this worksheet, you will be able to:
 make an appropriate use of mean, median and mode.

 Mean, median and mode are known as averages in Statistics. They are indicative of
the central tendency or center of a set of data.

 Mean for ungrouped data is calculated by

𝒔𝒖𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒂 𝚺𝑿
=
𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒂 𝒏

 Median is the middle score of a distribution. To calculate the median

 Arrange your numbers in numerical order.
 Count how many numbers you have.
 If you have an odd number, the number exactly in the middle is the median of
the data.
 If you have an even number, divide by 2. Go to the number in that position
and average it with the number in the next higher position to get the median.
 Mode is the most frequently occurring score in a distribution, simply select the most
common score as the mode.
Q1. Find the mean, median and mode of the following sets of numbers.
a) 6, 5, 4, 1, 2, 1, 5, 4, 8
Mean Median Mode

b) 39.6, 12, 13.5, 22.6, 31.3, 5.5, 8.4, 4.7,11.1,5.5

Mean Median Mode

c) -9, -7, -11, -5.5, -7.1, -8.9

Mean Median Mode
Q2. The temperatures, taken at midnight, of 6 consecutive nights in Singapore are
given as follows:
27 ⁰C, 26 ⁰C, 28 ⁰C, 23 ⁰C, 10 ⁰C, 45 ⁰C
(i) State the modal temperature. _____________

(ii) Calculate the mean temperature.

(iii) Calculate the median temperature.

(iv) The temperature taken at midnight of the 7th day in Singapore was 22⁰C. If
22 ⁰C is added to the above set of data, what will be the new modal
temperature? _______________________

(v) Calculate the new mean temperature.

(vi) Calculate the new median temperature.

(vii) Compare the results. What do you observe?

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Q3. The number of books a groups of students borrowed from the school library is
recorded.
Number of books 0 1 2 3 4
Number of students 2 𝑥 3 4 1

a) If the mean number of books the students borrowed is 1.8, find the value of 𝑥.

b) If the median of the distribution is 2, find possible values of 𝑥.

c) If the modal number of books the students borrowed is 3, state the greatest
possible value of 𝑥.

Q4. The median of 8 numbers is 4.5. Given that seven of the numbers are 9, 2, 3, 4,
12, 13 and 1. Find the eighth number.
 Use the given link to practice questions for mean , median and mode
https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/Averages.asp?Level=4

 Use the given web link to practice further for finding the mean of the given data.
https://www.mathopolis.com/questions/q.html?id=691&t=mif&qs=691_1453_1454_692_1455_1456_2179_
2180_3053_3054&site=1&ref=2f6d65616e2e68746d6c&title=486f7720746f2043616c63756c6174652074686
5204d65616e2056616c7565

 Use the given web link to practice further for finding the median of the given data.
https://www.mathopolis.com/questions/q.html?id=693&t=mif&qs=693_1457_739_1458_1459_3055_3056_
3057_3792_3793&site=1&ref=2f6d656469616e2e68746d6c&title=486f7720746f2046696e6420746865204d
656469616e2056616c7565

 Use the given web link to practice further for finding the mode of the given data.
https://www.mathopolis.com/questions/q.html?id=1460&t=mif&qs=1460_1461_1462_1463_3794_3796_37
97_3058_3059_3795&site=1&ref=2f6d6f64652e68746d6c&title=486f7720746f2043616c63756c6174652074
6865204d6f6465206f72204d6f64616c2056616c7565

 Access Century and attempt the given nuggets.

 Median [MF49.02]
 Mean 1 [MF49.03]
 Mean 2 [MF49.04]
 Mode [MF49.01]