Activity:

1. Find the mean, median, mode and range for each set of values.
a. 2,3,4,4,5
b. 7,4, 3, 5, 6,5

2. Erica’s marks in 8 consecutive Mathematics examinations were:

94, 83, 75, 52, 71, 68, 75, 49
a. Determine her total marks
b. What is her mean marks?

3. The mean mark of 25 students in a test is 73. Determine the mean mark if:
a. A student whose mark was 85 was absent from the test.
b. A student whose mark was 25 was absent from the test.

4. The shoe sizes of pupils in a class are:

4, 4, 7, 4, 6, 5, 5, 5, 4, 8, 7, 8, 8, 7, 5, 7, 6, 8 ,5, 8, 9, 9, 6, 5, 4, 5, 7, 7, 5, 9, 5
a. Draw a frequency table to represent the information given. (Hint: let the headings be
“shoe size” and “frequency”.
b. What is the median shoe size?
5. A biologist takes a sample of 100 grass plants to measure stem length. The following data
was obtained.

Length (cm) Frequency

25 2
26 9
27 10
28 12
29 20
30 19
31 13
32 15
a. Calculate the mean length per stem
b. What is the modal length of the plants?
c. What is the median length of the plants?
d. What is the range of the lengths of plants?