ACTIVITY 5

DESCRIPTIVE MEASURES

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Refer to data set on the last page, and answer the following

GENDER
● How many female students? 17
● Male students? 18
● Can you compute for the mean of gender? ___YES ___NO
● If yes, what is it?
● If no, why? Computing for mean can’t be used in the case of qualitative data.
● Can you compute for the median of the gender? ___YES ___NO
● If yes, what is it?
● If no, why? Computing for median can’t be used in the case of qualitative data and there are only two
values where it is a nominal data.
● Can you compute for the mode of the gender? ___YES ___NO
● If yes, what is it? 1- Male which is repeated 18 times.
● If no, why?________________________________________________________________
● What is the most appropriate central location (Mean, Median, Mode) in summarizing the gender?
● Mode is the most appropriate central location in summarizing the gender.

AGE
● Can you compute for the mean of the age? ___YES ___NO
● If yes, what is it? 17
● If no, why? ____________________________________________________________
● Can you compute for the median of the age? ___YES ___NO
● If yes, what is it? 17
● If no, why? _________________________________________________________________
● Can you compute for the mode of the age? ___YES ___NO
● If yes, what is it? 17
● If no, why?
● What is the most appropriate central location (Mean, Median, Mode) in summarizing the age?
● Mean

SOCIOECONOMIC GROUP
 ● How many students belong to High class? 13
● Average class? 10 Low class? 12
● Can you compute for the mean of socioeconomic group? __YES ___NO
o If yes, what is it?
o If no, why? Computing for mean cannot be used in the case of qualitative data in which
socioeconomic is a qualitative data (ordinal variable).
● Can you compute for the median of the socioeconomic group? __YES ___NO
o If yes, what is it? 2-average
o If no, why? ________________________________________________________
● Can you compute for the mode of the socioeconomic group? __ YES ___NO
o If yes, what is it? 1 – high class
o If no, why? __________________________________________________
● What is the most appropriate central location (Mean, Median, Mode) in summarizing the
socioeconomic group? Mode

SCORE
● Can you compute for the mean of the score? ___YES ___NO
● If yes, what is it? 75
● If no, why?____________________________________________________________
● Can you compute for the median of the score? ___YES ___NO
● If yes, what is it? 77
● If no, why? _________________________________________________________________
● Can you compute for the mode of the score? ___YES ___NO
● If yes, what is it? 80 and 85
● If no, why?________________________________________________________________
● What is the most appropriate central location (Mean, Median, Mode) in summarizing the score?
● Mean

DIFFICULTY
● Can you compute for the mean of the Difficulty? ___YES ___NO
● If yes, what is it? 3- moderate
● If no, why?
● Can you compute for the median of the Difficulty? ___YES ___NO
● If yes, what is it? 3- moderate
● If no, why? _________________________________________________________________
● Can you compute for the mode of the Difficulty? ___YES ___NO
● If yes, what is it? 2-easy, 3-moderate, 4-difficult
● If no, why?________________________________________________________________
● What is the most appropriate central location (Mean, Median, Mode) in summarizing the Difficulty?
● Median

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Note: Please copy the data and paste in the Excel worksheet for easy computation.
 Socioeconomic Midterm Exam Scores in Difficulty of the
Gender Group Age Statistics exam
1 2 1 18 75 4
2 2 1 17 78 4
3 1 3 16 60 3
4 2 1 18 70 2
5 1 3 18 62 3
6 1 3 16 59 1
7 1 1 16 65 2
8 2 2 17 76 2
9 2 2 17 77 3
10 1 2 17 79 3
11 2 1 18 80 4
12 2 1 17 85 5
13 1 3 16 63 4
14 1 1 18 86 5
15 1 3 18 64 1
16 1 3 16 61 2
17 2 1 16 89 2
18 2 3 17 85 3
19 2 3 17 79 1
20 1 1 17 80 5
21 1 2 16 75 5
22 1 2 16 74 5
23 2 2 17 82 4
24 2 2 17 79 4
25 2 2 18 80 4
26 1 1 18 65 3
27 1 1 17 67 3
28 2 3 16 70 2
29 1 3 18 85 2
30 2 3 17 88 3
31 1 2 16 80 2
32 2 1 17 78 2
33 1 1 18 70 3
34 2 2 16 85 4
35 1 3 17 76 4

Difficulty gender : 1 – Male 2 - female

1 – very easy Socioeconomic : 1 – High 2 – average 3- low
2 – easy
3 – moderate
4 – difficult
5 – Very difficult