1. Find the median, mean, mode and range of these sets of numbers: a) 3, 12,4,6,8,5,4 ©) 12, 1, 10, 1,9, 3,4, 9, 7,9 b) 7,21,2,17,3,13,7,4,9,7,9 @) 8,0,3,3,1,7,4,1,4,4. 2. Copy and complete. a) ‘The mean of 3,5,6andis6, —_-b). "The mean of 7,8, D and 4is 8. 3. ‘The frequency table shows the test results for a class of 30 students. Mark 3[4|s5 ] 6|7 Frequency 25 4/7 6 What was the modal mark? 4. a) Calculate the mean of 2, 5,7, 7,4. ‘b) Hence find the mean of 32, 35, 37, 37, 34. 5._ ‘The total mass of five men is 380 kg, Calculate the mean mass of the men, 6. ‘The temperature in a greenhouse was measured at midnight every day fora week. The results (in °C) were 1 -2 4 0 5 2 What was the range of the temperatures? 8 6 7. The table shows the age, height and weight of seven children Mike | Steve | Dora | Sam | Pat | Rayan Gary Age(years)| 16 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 16 Height (em) 169 | 180 [0 “175 | 172 | 163 | 164 Weight(kg)| 50 | so | s2 | 4 | si | 41 | 48 a) What was the median age? 1b) What was the median height? ©) What was the median weight? 8. Ther: for sight numbers shown is 40. inttwopatruccienagane. SRR RRGRE 9. ‘The mean weight of ten people in a lift is 70kg. ‘The weight limit for the lift is 1000kg, Roughly how many more people can get into the lift? 10. ‘There were ten cowboys in a saloon. The mean age of the men was 25 and the range of their ages was 6. Write each statement below and then write next to it whether it is true, possible or false. 4) The youngest man was 18 years old. ©) The oldest person was 4 years older than the youngest. 4). Every man was between 20 and 26 years old. b) All the men were at least 20 years old11. ‘these are the salaries of five employees in a small business. Miss A:$22500 Mr B:$17900 MrC: $21 400 Mr D:$22500 Mrs E: $85 300. a) Find the mean, median and mode of their salaries. b) Which does not give a fair average? Explain why in one sentence. 12. A farmer has 32 cattle to sell. Their weights in kg are as follows. 81 Bl 85 86 a1 92 154 320 [Total weight = 5028 kg] On the telephone, when talking to a potential buyer, the farmer describes. the cattle and says the average weight is ‘over 157kg. a) Find the mean weight and the median weight. b) Which average has the farmer used to describe his animals? Does this average describe the cattle fairly?13. 14. 15. 16. 7. A gardening magazine sells seedlings of a plant through the post and claims that the average height of the plants after one year’s growth will be 85cm. A sample of 24 of the plants were measured after one year with these results (in cm) 6 7 7 9 M S6 8 89 89 90 90 91 91 92 «9393 93 9% 9 9 % 97 7 9 (The sum of the heights is 1788em.) a) Find the mean and the median height of the sample. b) Is the magazine’ claim about average height justified? ‘The mean weight of five people is 76kg, ‘The weights of four of the people are 72kg, 74 kg, 75kg and 81 kg. What is the weight of the fifth person? “The mean length of six rods is 44-2cm. ‘The mean length of five of them is 46cm. How long is the sixth rod? a) ‘The mean of 3, 7, 8, 10 and xis 6. Find x, b) ‘The mean of 3, 3, 7,8, 10, x and 7. Find x. “The mean height of 12 men is 1-70m, and the mean height of 8 women is 1-60 m, Find a) the total height of the 12 men b) the total height of the 8 women ©) the mean height of the 20 men and women.18, ‘The total weight of 6 rugby players is 540 kg and the mean weight of 14 ballet dancers is 40kg. Find the mean weight of the group of 20 rugby players and ballet dancers. 19. Write five numbers so that, the mean is 6 _ 2 the median is 5 i i el Ee the mode is 4. 20. Find five numbers so that the mean, median, mode and range are all 4. 21. The numbers 3, 5, 7, 8 and N are arranged in ascending order. If the mean of the numbers is equal to the median, find N. 2 8 . "The mean of five numbers is 11. ‘The numbers are in the ratio 1:2:3:4:5. Find the smallest number. 23. ‘Ihe median of five consecutive integers is N. a) Find the mean of the five numbers. b) Find the mean and the median of the squares of the integers. ©) Find the difference between the two values in part b).