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Practice · Grades 6–8

Statistics: centre, spread and distributions

Statistics: centre, spread and distributions

Warm-upHuman

Which of these are statistical questions? (Choose all that apply.)

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Statistics: centre, spread and distributions

Warm-upHuman

Six friends picked these numbers of mangoes: 4,9,6,3,8,64, 9, 6, 3, 8, 6. What is the mean number of mangoes per friend?

Statistics: centre, spread and distributions

CoreHuman

Find the median of 12,7,3,20,9,1512, 7, 3, 20, 9, 15.

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Statistics: centre, spread and distributions

CoreHuman

Using this lesson's rule for quartiles, find the interquartile range of 3,5,7,8,10,12,13,15,193, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 19.

Statistics: centre, spread and distributions

CoreHuman

The data 3,4,5,5,6,7,83, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8 are minutes to walk to school. The 88 is a typing error and should have been 8080. Which summaries change when it is corrected? (Choose all that apply.)

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Statistics: centre, spread and distributions

CoreHuman

Two maize varieties are grown on 20 plots each. Variety P: median yield 3.13.1 tonnes per hectare, IQR 0.40.4. Variety Q: median 3.23.2, IQR 1.81.8. Which statement is the best comparison?

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Statistics: centre, spread and distributions

StretchHuman

In a test, a class of 1010 students has a mean score of 6060 and a class of 3030 students has a mean score of 8080. What is the mean score of all 4040 students?

Statistics: centre, spread and distributions

StretchHuman

In the proof of Theorem 6 we expand ∑(xi−c)2=∑(xi−xˉ)2+2(xˉ−c)∑(xi−xˉ)+n(xˉ−c)2\sum (x_i - c)^2 = \sum (x_i - \bar x)^2 + 2(\bar x - c)\sum (x_i - \bar x) + n(\bar x - c)^2. Why does the middle term vanish?

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Statistics: centre, spread and distributions

CoreFormal

In Lean, median_resistant says: 3 ≤ l.length → medianSorted (l.set (l.length - 1) v) = medianSorted l. Why is the hypothesis 3 ≤ l.length needed?

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Statistics: centre, spread and distributions

StretchComputational

Write five_number_summary(data) returning a tuple (minimum, Q1, median, Q3, maximum) using this lesson's rule: sort the data; the median is the middle value (or the mean of the two middle values); Q1Q_1 and Q3Q_3 are the medians of the lower and upper halves, leaving out the median when the number of values is odd. Use a helper median(values).

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