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Task 1: Enter the data into SPSS:

Although this was completed for me, I still placed the steps below on how to complete this:

To do this, I went to the variable section on SPSS and input the labels for the students and tickets as
well as their corresponding values. Then, I input the data itself, such as ‘1’ for year 9 and ‘2’ for year
10 including the number of tickets that were sold.

1. Open SPSS
2. Open the ‘variables tab’ and place in the particulars for the data, such as the name of
the variable(s), the level and the values (this is showcased in image 1)
3. Go back to the data tab, and place in the corresponding data (Image 2)

Image 1: The data input on the ‘Variable view’ of SPSS

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Image 2: Data for the 24 participants on how many tickets they sold for the musical production
placed in ‘Data view’

Task 2: Calculate the three measures of central tendency (mode, median, mean) using SPSS

(i) What are the SPSS commands to do this?

For this task, I clicked the ‘analyse’ tab. I hovered over the descriptive statistics tab and clicked on
‘frequencies.’ Then, I ensured that the variable of ‘number of tickets’ was in the right-hand column
and clicked on ‘statistics.’ I checked the boxes for the three central tendencies, ‘mode, median and
mean’ then I clicked ‘Continue’, and ‘Ok’ on the frequencies tab to get the central tendencies.

1. Click on analyse tab in the top banner

2. Hover curser over descriptive statistics and click ‘frequencies’ from the drop-down menu
3. Once frequency tab has opened, click on ‘number of tickets’ in the left-hand column and
press the middle arrow to change it to the right-hand column in ‘variables’
4. Click on ‘statistics’
5. Check the mean, median and mode boxes in the ‘Central Tendency’ box and click continue
6. Click ‘Ok’ to open up the data in a new tab.
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Image 3: Process of getting to the frequency statistics tab

Image 4: The process of getting the mean, median and mode of the data.

Statistics
Number of tickets
N Valid 24
Missing 0
Mean 138.54
Median 104.00
Mode 131

Mean number of tickets sold: 138.54

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Median number of tickets sold: 104

Mode of tickets sold: 131

For the musical production, the mode (most occurring number) of tickets sold was 131. Additionally,
the median (centre number of data) of tickets was 131, and the mean (the centre point of value) was
138.54.

Task 3: Calculate the two measures of dispersion of data (range and standard deviation)

To do this, went back and clicked the ‘analyse’ tab. I then hovered over the descriptive statistics tab
and clicked on ‘frequencies.’ I then clicked on ‘statistics’ and checked the boxes for ‘range’ and
‘Standard deviation’. I pressed ‘continue’ and ‘ok’ to get the data.

1. Click on analyse tab in the top banner

2. Hover curser over descriptive statistics and click ‘frequencies’ from the drop-down menu
3. Once frequency tab has opened, click on ‘number of tickets’ in the left-hand column and
press the middle arrow to change it to the right-hand column in ‘variables’
4. Click on ‘statistics’
5. Uncheck the mean, median and mode central tendencies that were checked previously
(optional)
6. Check the ‘Std. deviation’ and ‘Range’ boxes in the bottom left box labelled ‘Dispersion.’
7. Click ‘Continue’ and ‘Ok’ to get the data.

Image 5: Process of getting to the frequencies tab.

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Image 6 and 7: Process of getting the range and standard deviation for the data through the
frequency statistics tab.

Statistics
Number of Tickets Sold
N Valid 24
Missing 0
Std. Deviation 176.288
Range 884

Range of tickets sold: 884

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The standard deviation for tickets sold (2DP): 176.29

The range for the tickets (difference between the highest and the lowest) was 884 and the standard
deviation (In relation to the mean, how dispersed the data are) was 176.29.