BUCKINGHAM SCHOOL

PRACTICE WORKSHEET Measures of central tendency: Mean, Median and Mode

Names:_____________________________________ Subject:__________ Class: 10__
Date: _____________ Time: _______
Practice Problems source : Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching https://www.cimt.org.uk/projects/mepres/allgcse/bkb9.pdf

The study of statistics was begun by an English mathematician, John Graunt (1620–1674). He collected and studied
the death records in various cities in Britain and, despite the fact that people die randomly, he was fascinated by
the patterns he found.

1. A football team keeps records of the number of goals it scores per match during a season. Calculate the mean
number of goals per match.
No. of Goals Frequency Calculation
0 8
1 10
2 12
3 3
4 5
5 2
Totals
 Mean number of goals per match:

2. Hannah drew this bar chart to show the number of repeated cards she got when she opened packets of football
stickers.

 Calculate the mean number of repeats per packet.

3. A class conducts an experiment in biology. They place a number of 1m-by-1m square grids on the playing
field and count the number of worms which appear when they pour water on the ground. The results
obtained are given below.

6 3 2 1 3 2 1 3 0 1
0 3 2 1 1 4 0 1 2 0
1 1 2 2 2 4 3 1 1 1
2 3 3 1 2 2 2 1 7 1
(a) Calculate the mean number of worms.

(b) How many times was the number of worms seen greater than the mean?
 (c) Calculate the median.

(d) Calculate the mode.

(e) Calculate the range.

3. Pupils in Year 8 are arranged in eleven classes. The class sizes are

23, 24, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 24, 29, 24, 27.

(a) What is the modal class size?

(b) Calculate the mean class size.

(c) The range of the class sizes for Year 9 is 3. What does this tell you about the class sizes in Year 9
compared with those in Year 8?

4.Thirty families were selected at random in two different countries. They were asked how many children there
were in each family.

Country A Country B

1 2 1 2 2 1
2 0 1 4 1 1
2 2 3 2 3 5
2 1 1 3 5 1
2 2 2 9 4 2
3 1 0 6 5 1

Calculation Result/answer
Mean A
B
Median A
B
Mode A
B
Range A
B