Measures of Center

Playing with Mean (average)

• A student in our class had a 77% and a 88% on
two tests this quarter. What is their average?

• What would their average be if they scored a

______ on their 3rd test?

• ______= 95% 60% 83%

 Playing with Mean (average)
• The average number of hours of sleep a
student in our class gets is 6 hours.

• Determine four numbers that would make this

statement true.

• ______, ______, ______, ______

• A student received the following grades for
the first four quarters of the year: 84%, 91%,
77%, 88%. What does this student need on
the final exam to have a 87% overall average?
 Data Sets that Distort the MEAN
• How many hours do you spend watching
media per day? -Kody & Matt

• 1,2,2,3,3,3,3,6,8,10

• Median = 3
• Mean = 4.2
 Data Sets that Distort the MEAN
• If you scored a 92%, 89%, 95% and a 35% on
four tests this quarter what is your Mean
(average)?

• Is this a good representation of what you

know?

• What do we call the number 35%?

 Ticket Out
• What have you learned • When is it better to use
about how changing the the median as a
data can effect the measure of central
Mean (average)? tendency instead of the
Mean (average)?