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Performance Task 3

1. Which measure of central tendency is generally used in determining the size of the most
saleable shoes in a department store?
a. Mean c. mode

b. median d. range

2. For the set of data consisting of 8, 8, 9, 10, 10, which statement is true?
a. mean = mode c. mean = median
b. median = mode d. mean < median

3. Margie has grades 86, 68 and 79 in her first three tests in Algebra. What grade must she
obtain on the fourth test to get an average of 78?

4. What is the median age of a group of employees whose ages are 36, 38, 18, 10 16 and 15
years?

5. Nine people gave contributions in pesos 100, 200, 100, 300, 300, 200, 200, 150, 100, and 100
for a door prize. What is the median contribution?

6. If the heights in centimetres of a group of students are 180, 180, 173, 170, and 167, what is
the mean height of these students?

7. If the range of a set of scores is 14 and the lowest score is 7, what is the highest score?

A video shop owner wants to find out the performance sales of his two branch stores for

the last five months. The table shows their monthly sales in thousands of pesos.

For 8 & 9

Branch A 20 18 18 19 17
Branch B 17 15 25 17 18

8. What are the average sales of the two stores?

9. Which store is consistently performing? Why?

For items 10, 11, & 12

Class Frequency
46-50 1
41-45 2
 36-40 3
31-35 10
26-30 6
21-25 9
16-20 5
11-15 6
6-10 4
1-5 2

10. What is the class size?

11. What is the value of the median score?

12. What is the range of the given set of data?

Find the mean, median, and mode/modes of each of the following sets of data.

13. 29, 34, 37, 22, 15, 38, 40

14. 5, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9, 9, 10, 14, 16, 20

15. 82, 61, 93, 56, 34, 57, 92, 53, 57

16. 26, 32, 12, 18, 11, 12, 15, 18, 21

17. The scores of 20 students in a Biology quiz are as follows: 25 33 35 45 34 26 29 35 38 40 45

18. Athena got the following scores in the first quarter quizzes: 12, 10, 16, x, 13, and 9. What must
be her score on the 4th quiz to get an average of 12?

19. The mean of 12 scores is 68. If two scores, 70 and 63 are removed, what is the mean of the
remaining scores?

For 21-23

The first three test scores of each of the four students are shown. Each student hopes to
maintain an average of 85. Find the score needed by each student on the fourth test to have
an average of 85, or explain why such average is not possible.

20. Lisa: 78, 80, 100

21. Mary: 90, 92, 95

22. Lina: 79, 80, 81

23. Willie: 65, 80, 80

24. If the range of the set of scores is 29 and the lowest score is 18, what is the highest score?

25. If the range of the set of scores is 14, and the highest score is 31, what is the lowest score?
26. The reaction times for a random sample of 9 subjects to a stimulant were recorded as 2.5, 3.6,
3.1, 4.3, 2.9, 2.3, 2.6, 4.1 and 3.4 seconds. Calculate range.

27-32. Calculate the mean of the Mid-year Test scores of Students in Filipino. Show solutions.

Mid-year Test Scores of Students in Filipino

Score Frequency
41-45 1
36-40 8
31-35 8
26-30 14
21-25 7
16-20 2

33-42. Calculate the mean of the Mid-year Test scores of Students in Filipino. Show solutions.

Score Frequency
41-45 1
36-40 8
31-35 8
26-30 14
21-25 7
16-20 2

43-60. Complete the table below . find the mean and median. Show solutions.

Score f x fx cf
55-58 2
51-54 4
47-50 5
43-46 6
39-42 10
35-38 13
31-34 8
27-30 6
23-26 6
19-22 2
15-18 2
11-14 1