MATHEMATICS STUDY GUIDE (13-01-2024)

TOPIC: STATISTICS II

CALCULATION OF RANGE, MEDIAN, AND MODE OF UNGROUPED DATA

RANGE: is the highest value minus lowest value. i.e. H – L

MEDIAN: this is the middle number of a given distribution when arranged in order.

MODE: this is the number that occurred most frequent in a given distribution.

UNGROUPED DATA: These are data that are collected raw and treated as individual
entity.

EXAMPLE

A dice is thrown 14 times and the scores were:

1, 6, 6, 4, 3, 5, , 5, 2, 4, 6, 3, 2, 1, 4.

Find the: (a) range (b) median score (c) mode score.

SOLUTION

Range = Highest score – Lowest score

=6–1 =5

Median score = 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3,| 4, 4,| 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6 (arrange in ascending or

descending order)

Median = 4

Mode = 4 and 6 ( bi – modal )

EXAMPLE

The table below shows the shoe size of a group of boys in ss1 Elias International
School.
SHOE SIZE 9 10 11 12

FREQUENCY 4 5 7 2

Find the: (a) mode (b) median (c) range

SOLUTION

Mode is 11 because it appears 7 times.

Median =

+ 1= 4 + 5 + 7 + 2 + 1= 19

19 2 = 9.5th term

Median = =

Median = 10.5

OR

9,9,9,9,10,10,10,10,|10,11,|11,11,11,11,11,11,12,12

10+11 21
2
= 2
= 10.5 (Note: 10 and 11 are found in the middle hence
add and divide by 2)

Range = Highest value - Lowest value

= 12 – 9 = 3

EXAMPLE
Find the mode, median, and range of 50%, 55%, 60%, 70%, 65%.

SOLUTION

Mode = no mode

Median = 50%, 55%, |60%,| 65%, 70% = 60%

Range = 70% – 50% = 20%

ASSESSMENT: find the mode, median and range of the following:

1. 17 ,23 ,7 , 3 ,10 , 25 ,6 .
2. Dice was thrown many times. The table is given below showing the number
of the dice that appear.
Nos. on the dice 1 2 3 4 5 6

Frequency 4 6 8 2 3 2

Find the (a) mode (b) median (c) range.

3. The table below shows the marks obtained in a Mathematics test by sss1 students.
MARKS 5 6 7 8 9 10

FREQUENCY 2 3 5 7 4 2

Find the : (a) Modal mark (b) range (c) median mark.

4. OLUCHI did 10 tests in English dictation and her marks were as follows:

70, 50, 60, 75, 30, 65, 60, 40, 78, 80 .

 Find her range.

 Find her median mark.
 Find her modal mark