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Activity No. 3
Measure of Central Tendency and Quantile

A. Discuss the following:

1.) What is the Measure of Central Tendency and what are its concern?
2.) Describe the three measures of central tendencies?
3.) Among the three measures of central tendency which one is do you think the best for a
given set of data and why?
4.) For each of the following situations, identify the measure of central tendency (mean,
median, mode) that would provide the best description of the “average” score:
a.)The college recorded the age of each student who graduated last summer. Although the
majority of the students were in their early 20s, a few mature students were in their 40s,
50s and 60s.
b.) A researcher asked each participant to select his or her favorite color from a set of eight
color patches.
c.) A professor uses standardized test to measure verbal skill for a sample of new college
freshmen.
5.) When do you use quantile?

B. Perform the following:

1.) An interview was conducted by a Physical Therapist to their 32 patients suffering from sciatic
nerve problem. He asked them to describe the level of pain after they go through with a
certain therapeutic exercises. Given the table below:

Response Scale
Severe Pain 5
Painful 4
Moderate 3
Mild 2
No more Pain 1

And the results;

Responses
5 4 3 2 1
Respondents 1 3 10 15 3

Determine the mean response of the patients. (Prepare the necessary range interpretation
for the computed mean response)
2.) In the event of the “Health Consciousness Week” launched by the university, forty students
were randomly checked for their Body Mass Index (BMI) to determine their health
condition.

20.1 30.3 28.8 23.1 28.7 22.3 28.5 19.2 27.9 19.0
18.6 19.7 21.7 30.1 33.5 25.4 24.0 24.2 30.1 28.7
33.8 27.9 22.7 21.3 36.2 34.6 21.2 19.3 25.8 26.8
33.9 34.6 20.4 19.8 25.6 22.2 21.8 33.3 34.8 20.1

a. Compute for mean, median and mode

b. Perform the analysis and interpretation of mean, median and mode. (Prepare a 5 scales
or levels for the interpretation of their BMI)

3.) From Problem 2, determine the following:

a.) Q1
b.) P70
c.) D5