Math Spiral 27: Statistics & Probability

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4 questions
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Directions: Evaluate the question below for each scenario. Be very specific with mathematical evidence and examples to back up your answer.

There are two sets of data (Data set A and Data set B). Both have ten numbers in the set and all of the numbers are the same. Which of the following is true or false and why if Data set B receives one more number that is larger than the rest of the data set?


Date set A would have a larger range.

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Directions: Evaluate the question below for each scenario. Be very specific with mathematical evidence and examples to back up your answer.

There are two sets of data (Data set A and Data set B). Both have ten numbers in the set and all of the numbers are the same. Which of the following is true or false and why if Data set B receives one more number that is larger than the rest of the data set?


The mode of each set would be different.

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Directions: Evaluate the question below for each scenario. Be very specific with mathematical evidence and examples to back up your answer.

There are two sets of data (Data set A and Data set B). Both have ten numbers in the set and all of the numbers are the same. Which of the following is true or false and why if Data set B receives one more number that is larger than the rest of the data set?


The median of the two data sets would be the same.

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Directions: Evaluate the question below for each scenario. Be very specific with mathematical evidence and examples to back up your answer.

There are two sets of data (Data set A and Data set B). Both have ten numbers in the set and all of the numbers are the same. Which of the following is true or false and why if Data set B receives one more number that is larger than the rest of the data set?


The mean of data set A is larger than the mean of data set B.