Deviation Compare 1
Deviation Compare 1
Sheet 1
Mean Absolute Deviation
1) Find the mean absolute deviation for the data sets A and B. Round your answers to two
decimal places and compare them.
A 23 49 58 72 81 89 90
B 25 46 54 61 70 79 85
2) The table compares the points scored by two basketball teams in 6 games. What is the
mean absolute deviation for each set of the data? Round your answers to two decimal
places and compare them.
Point table
Team A Team B
42 54 54 55 15 82
50 57 58 65 44 99
Mean Absolute Deviation for Team A Mean Absolute Deviation for Team B
3) The table below shows the number of prizes won by the students of seven schools in an
interschool competition. Find the mean absolute deviation of the given data set. Round
your answer to two decimal places. Also interpret how the mean absolute deviation will
change, if the value of 65 is removed.
Mean Absolute Deviation with ‘65’ Mean Absolute Deviation without ‘65’
A 23 49 58 72 81 89 90
B 25 46 54 61 70 79 85
2) The table compares the points scored by two basketball teams in 6 games. What is the
mean absolute deviation for each set of the data? Round your answers to two decimal
places and compare them.
Point table
Team A Team B
42 54 54 55 15 82
50 57 58 65 44 99
Mean Absolute Deviation for Team A > Mean Absolute Deviation for Team B
3) The table below shows the number of prizes won by the students of seven schools in an
interschool competition. Find the mean absolute deviation of the given data set. Round
your answer to two decimal places. Also interpret how the mean absolute deviation will
change, if the value of 65 is removed.
Mean Absolute Deviation with ‘65’ = 21.14 Prizes won by the students
Mean Absolute Deviation with ‘65’ > Mean Absolute Deviation without ‘65’
The data values without ‘65’ are closer to the mean than the data values with ‘65’.