Assignment 1: Central Tendency Measures

The following table includes data on the number of square kilometers of the more substantial
islands of the Galapagos Archipelago. (There are actually many more islands if you count all the
small volcanic rock outcroppings as islands.)

Approximate Area (sq.

Island
km)
Baltra 8

Darwin 1.1

Española 60

Fernandina 642

Floreana 173

Genovesa 14

Isabela 4640

Marchena 130

North
1.9
Seymour

Pinta 60

Pinzón 18

Rabida 4.9

San Cristóbal 558

Santa Cruz 986

Santa Fe 24

Santiago 585

South Plaza 0.13

Wolf 1.3

0.13 – 1.1 - 1.3 – 1.9 – 4.9 – 8 – 14 – 18 – 24 – 60 - 60 - 130 – 173 – 558 – 585 – 642 – 986 - 4640

(a) Calculate each of the following for the above data:

(i) mode = 60
(ii) mean = 439.2961111
(iii) median = (24+60) / 2 = 42
(iv) upper quartile = 558
(v) lower quartile = 4.9
(b) Explain why the mean is so much larger than the median in the context of this
data.
the mean is so much larger than the median because it is the sum of all divided numbers for the
total amount of data