5/4 Unit 8 Lesson 11: Mean Absolute Deviation
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Is 30 pages a good estimate of the mean number of pages that Han read each day? Explain your reasoning.
Find the mean number of pages that Han read during the five days.
(Use the Show Your Work to work out the mean numer of pages.)
Use the dot plot and the mean to complete the table.
Which number of minutes is a typical amount of time for the ten sixth-grade studetns to travel to school, 9 or 4.2? Explain your reasoning.
Based on the mean and MAD, Jada believes that travel times between 5 and 13 minutes are common for this group. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your reasoning.
A different group of ten sixth-grade students also recorded their travel times to school. Their mean travel time was also 9 minutes, but their MAD was about 7 minutes. What could the dot plot of the second data set look like?
Calculate the mean absolute deviation (MAD) of the data. Explain or show your reasoning