Application of averages
Examples
Lessons
- A school collected gifts from students to give to needy children in the community over the Christmas holidays. The following numbers of gifts were collected.
Grade
Total number of gifts collected
1
65
2
100
3
70
4
54
5
45
6
54
7
43
- The following table represents the sizes of winter boots that were sold last week.
Size
5
6
7
8
9
10
Number Sold
3
2
4
4
0
1
- In a running race, the mean time was 2 minutes; the mode time was 2 minutes and 10 seconds; and the median time was 1 minute and 55 seconds. Jack had a time of 2 minutes. Which measure of central tendency (mode, median or mean) would you use to make Jack feel like he could do better?