MATH 225N STATISTICS WEEK 4 QUIZ

Question 1 Alice sells boxes of candy at the baseball game and wants to know the mean number of boxes she sells. The numbers for the games so far are listed below. 16,14,14,21,15 Find the mean boxes sold. ________________________________________ That is correct! ________________________________________ Answer: 16 Boxes Question 2 Given the following list of prices (in thousands of dollars) of randomly selected trucks at a car dealership, find the median. 20,46,19,14,42,26,33 ________________________________________ That is correct! ________________________________________ Answer: median=26 thousands of dollars Question 3 Each person in a group shuffles a deck of cards and keeps selecting a card until a queen appears. Find the mode of the following number of cards drawn from a deck until a queen appears. 3,12,3,11,5,5,3,10,12 ________________________________________ That is correct! ________________________________________ Answer: mode=3 cards Question 4 The dataset below represents bugs found by a software tester in her product during different phases of testing: 88, 84, 81, 94, 91, 98, 98, 200. The measures of central tendency are given below: Mean: 104.25; Median: 92.5; Mode: 98. Identify the outlier and the measure of central tendency that is affected by the outlier. ________________________________________