Activity Sheet

ACTIVITY 1

Name: Mendoza, Arlene L. Course/Year/Section: BSE-English3Score:

Direction: Compare your answers with those given at the end of the unit.

1. State the meaning of central tendency. What is the difference between mean, median and mode?

2. Compute mean, median, mode, and standard deviation of the following distribution of scores:

a. Mean (x̄ )
x̄ = ΣX
N
= 12 + 18 + 15…+ 14 + 19 + 20
30
= 480
30
x̄ = 16

b. Median
11 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 14 15 15 15
 16 16 16 17 17 17 17 17 17 18 18 18 19 19 19 20 20 20

MEDIAN 16 + 17
= 16.5
2

c. Mode
17
The score that appeared most is 17. There is only one mode, therefore, score distribution is
unimodal.

d. Standard Deviation

xi (xi−μ) (xi−μ)2

12 12-16= 4 16
18 18-16= 2 4
15 15-16= -1 1
17 17-16= 1 1
16 16-16= 0 0
17 17-16= 1 1
12 12-16= -4 16
11 11-16= -5 25
18 18-16= 2 4
20 20-16= 4 16
19 19-16= 3 9
15 15-16= -1 1
16 16-16= 0 0
17 17-16= 1 1
14 14-16= -2 4
17 17-16= 1 1
13 13-16= -3 9
13 13-16= -3 9
11 11-16= -5 25
19 19-16= 3 9
18 18-16= 2 4
17 17-16= 1 1
14 14-16= -2 4
20 20-16= 4 16
15 15-16= -1 1
17 17-16= 1 1
16 16-16= 0 0
14 14-16= -2 4
19 19-16= 3 9
20 20-16= 4 16
x= 16 ∑ ( xi−μ2 ) = 208
Formula:

σ=
√∑ ( xi−μ2 )
N

=
√ ∑ ( xi−μ2 )
N

3. Compute mean, median, mode, and standard deviation of the following distribution of
scores using the table below:

76 84 69 92 58
89 73 97 85 77

Class A
X (X- x̄ ) (X - x̄ )2

76 76-80= -4 16
84 84-80= 4 16
69 69-80= -11 121
92 92-80= 12 144
58 58-80= -22 484
89 89-80= 9 81
73 73-80= -7 49
97 97-80= 17 289
85 85-80= 5 25
77 77-80= -3 9

x̄ = 80 ∑ ¿¿ = 1,234