The Measures of Central Tendency

• Arithmetic Mean, or Mean

- the sum of observations divided by the number of observations.
• Weighted Arithmetic Mean
- the sum of the product of observed value and the weight assigned to
each observation divided by the sum of the weights.
• Median
- the middle value when the set of data is arranged in an increasing or
decreasing order of magnitude.
• Mode
- the value which occurs with the greatest frequency or the most common
value.
Types of distribution:
a. uni modal – a distribution having only one mode.
b. bimodal – a distribution having two modes.
c. multimodal – a distribution having more than 2 modes
 Problem Set
(ungrouped data)
1. The arithmetic mean of the numbers 8,3,5,12,
and 10.
2. The grades of a student on six examinations
were 84, 91, 72, 68, 87, and 78. Find the
arithmetic mean of the grades.
3. The employees of a local manufacturing plant
pledged the following donations, in dollars, to
the United Fund:
10,40,25,5,20,10,25,50,30,10,5,15,25,50,10,30,
50,15,45, and 15. Calculate the mean.
4. If 5,8,6, and 2 occur with frequencies 3,2,4, and
1, respectively. What is weighted arithmetic
mean?
5. If a final examination in a course is weighted 3
times as much as the quiz and student has a final
examination grade of 85 and quiz grades of 70
and 90, calculate the weighted mean grade.
6. In a company having 80 employees, 60 earn
P425.00 per hour and 20 earn P375.50 per hour.
Determine the mean earnings per hour.
7. The set of numbers 10,4,4,5,6,8,8,8, and 3.
Determine the median.
8. The set of numbers 15, 5,5,18,11,12, 7 and 9.
Find the median.
9. The number of ATM transactions per day
were recorded at 15 locations in a large city.
The data were: 35, 49, 225, 50, 30, 65, 40, 55,
52, 76, 48, 325, 47, 32, and 60. Find the
median number of transactions.
10. Determine the mode and the type of
distribution of the following sets of data:
Set A : 2,2,5,7,9,9,9,10,10,11,12, and 18.
Set B : 2,3,4,4,4,5,5,7,7,7, and 9.
Set C : 3,5,8,10,12,15 and 16.