Extending Concepts


Trimmed Mean To find the 10% trimmed mean of a data set, order the data, delete the lowest 10% of the entries and the highest 10% of the entries, and find the mean of the remaining entries.


b. Compare the four measures of central tendency, including the midrange.

Tail lengths (in feet) for a sample of American alligators are listed.

6.5 3.4 4.2 7.1 5.4 6.8 7.5 3.9 4.6

a. Find the mean, median, and mode of the tail lengths. Which best describes a typical American alligator tail length? Explain your reasoning.

Weekly salaries (in dollars) for a sample of construction workers are listed.

1100 720 1384 1124 1255 976 718 1316

749 1062 1248 891 969 790 860 1100

a. Find the mean, median, and mode of the salaries. Which best describes a typical salary?

Find the mode of the data in the stemplot below.

Find the mode of the data in the table below. Is the data unimodal, bimodal, or multimodal?

Constructing Data Sets In Exercises 5– 8, construct the described data set. The entries in the data set cannot all be the same.

Mean and median are the same and the data is bimodal.

Using and Interpreting Concepts

Finding and Discussing the Mean, Median, and Mode In Exercises 17–34, find the mean, the median, and the mode of the data, if possible. If any measure cannot be found or does not represent the center of the data, explain why.

College Credits The number of credits being taken by a sample of 14 full-time college students for a semester

12 14 16 15 13 14 15

18 16 16 12 16 15 17

Using and Interpreting Concepts

Finding and Discussing the Mean, Median, and Mode In Exercises 17–34, find the mean, the median, and the mode of the data, if possible. If any measure cannot be found or does not represent the center of the data, explain why.

Video Durations The lengths (in minutes) of seven educational videos from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) (Source: PBS)

83 67 90 55 56 119 52

Using and Interpreting Concepts

Finding and Discussing the Mean, Median, and Mode In Exercises 17–34, find the mean, the median, and the mode of the data, if possible. If any measure cannot be found or does not represent the center of the data, explain why.

Power Failures The durations (in minutes) of power failures at a residence in the last 10 years

18 26 45 75 125 80 33

40 44 49 89 80 96 125

12 61 31 63 103 28 19