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Measures of Central Tendency (Ungrouped Data)

The graph shows the scores of 22 students in their pre-test and post-test.

a. What information can be obtained from the graph?


b. What conclusion can be made? Why?

Mean
The mean (also known as the arithmetic mean) is the most commonly used measure of
central position. It is used to describe a set of data where the measures cluster or concentrate
at a point. As the measures cluster around each other, a single value appears to represent
distinctively the typical value.

It is the sum of measures x divided by the number N of measures in a variable. To find the mean of an
ungrouped data, use the formula:
Σ𝑥
𝑥= 𝑁
Example 1: The grades in Geometry of 10 students are 87, 84, 85, 85, 86, 90, 79, 82, 78, 76. What
Is the average grade of the 10 students?
Example 2: The table shows Charlie’s grades in different subjects from the 1st to 4th quarter. I

Math 89 92 87 95

Science 90 88 88 89

English 89 92 94 87

History 87 88 90 95

A. What is Charlie’s average grade in all four subjects?


B. Rank them from highest to lowest?
C. Which subject does Charlie excel the most?
D. Charlie wants to enroll in AP (Advance Placement) classes next year. He must get an average of
90 to qualify for enrollment. Which AP classes can he enroll to?

Example 3: 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.

a. Lisa: 78, 80, 100 c. Lina: 79, 80, 81


b. Mary: 90, 92, 95 d. Willie: 65, 80, 80

Median
The middle value here or term in a set of data arranged according to size/magnitude
(either increasing or decreasing) is called the median.

Example 1: The library logbook shows that 58, 60, 54, 35, and 97 books, respectively, were borrowed
from Monday to Friday last week. Find the median.

Example 2: Given the following scores 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10. Find the median

Mode
The mode is the measure or value which occurs most frequently in a set of data. It is the
value with the greatest frequency.
To find the mode for a set of data:

1. select the measure that appears most often in the set;


2. if two or more measures appear the same number of times, then each of these values is a mode
3. if every measure appears the same number of times, then the set of data has no mode.

Find the mode in the given sets of scores.


1. {10, 12, 9, 10, 13, 11, 10}
2. {15, 20, 18, 19, 18, 16, 20, 18}
3. { 5, 8, 7, 9, 6, 8, 5}
4. { 7, 10, 8, 5, 9, 6, 4}
5. { 12, 16, 14, 15, 16, 13, 14}

Quiz # 1

I. The following students would like to maintain their grades to qualify as honor students.
They should at least get an average of 90 to qualify. Given their first four score, find their
missing score to qualify for the honor role.

A. Joel: 90, 92, 87, 89 C. Erlyn: 97, 82, 90, 89


B. Cherry: 85, 94, 85, 93 D. Santi: 88, 90, 83, 91

A. Did all of them qualify for the honor roll?

II. The following are grades of three students who are qualified to be the valedictorian.
After taking to account all aspects, their academic grades are left:

Student A Student B Student C

96 99 97

99 100 100

97 99 96

98 98 100

100 94 97

A. Calculate the Mean, Median, and Mode of the three students.


B. Based on the data you collected, which of the three students should be valedictorian.
Justify your answer.

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