Mathematics
Grade6
Easy
Question
Stephanie is a college scout for the women's basketball team. She compiles data on the points scored by certain players and gives a report to the coaches on the mode, mean, and range. Identify the statement that best describes the data values that are given to the coaches?
- The mode, mean, and range describe how the data varies.
- The mean and mode describe how the data varies, while the range summarizes the data
- The mode and range describe how the data varies and the mean summarizes the data.
- The mean and mode summarize the data, while the range describes how the data varies.
Hint:
We are given that Stephanie collects the data. The data is points scored by football team. She reports the data in terms of mean, mode and range. We have to describe the data values.
The correct answer is: The mean and mode summarize the data, while the range describes how the data varies.
We will see the definitions of mean, mode and range.
Mean: Mean gives us the average of the data.
For the given case, it will give us the average of the points scored.
Mode: Mode gives us the number that is repeated many times.
For this case, it will be the value of point scored many times.
Range: Range gives us the difference between maximum value and minimum value of the data.
For this case, it will be the value of difference between highest points scored and lowest points scored.
So, the mean and more summaries the data and range tells us how the data varies.
For such questions, we should know the definition of range, mean and mode.
