Grade 12 Measures of Center Worksheet
A comprehensive worksheet for Grade 12 students focusing on measures of center, including mean, median, mode, and their applications.
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Measures of Center: Mean, Median, and Mode
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Read each question carefully and provide the best answer. Show all your work for calculations.
1. Which measure of central tendency is most affected by outliers?
Median
Mean
Mode
Range
2. In a negatively skewed distribution, which of the following is typically true?
Mean < Median < Mode
Mean > Median > Mode
Mode < Mean < Median
Mean = Median = Mode
3. The is the middle value in an ordered dataset.
4. When all values in a dataset appear with the same frequency, there is no .
5. A dataset consists of the following values: 12, 15, 18, 12, 20, 22, 12. Calculate the mean, median, and mode for this dataset.
Mean:
Median:
Mode:
6. Explain a scenario where the median would be a more appropriate measure of central tendency than the mean.
7. The mode is always unique for any given dataset.
True
False
8. For a symmetrical distribution, the mean, median, and mode are approximately equal.
True
False
9. The following bar graph shows the number of hours students spent studying for a final exam. Calculate the mean, median, and mode for the study hours.
Mean:
Median:
Mode: