Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1133956572
ISBN 13: 978-1-13395-657-0

Chapter 3 - Measures of Central Tendency - Problems - Page 85: 2

Answer

$M=4$ $median=4.5$ $mode=5$

Work Step by Step

The mean: $M=\frac{∑X}{N}=\frac{5+4+5+2+7+1+3+5}{8}=\frac{32}{8}=4$ Scores in ascending order: $1~~2~~3~~4~~5~~5~~5~~7$ Since there are 8 scores ($N=8$), the median is the mean between the 4th and the 5th scores in ascending order: $median=\frac{4+5}{2}=4.5$ It is clear that the score $5$ has the greatest frequency. So: $mode=5$
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