Algebra 1 Name_______________________________________

Worksheet 6.1

For #1 4, use the table below.

The following table lists movies and the number of academy awards that each of them won.

1) Find the mean number of academy awards.

2) Find the median number of academy awards.

3) Which measure of central tendency best describes the data?

4) If The Lord of the Rings was listed for the whole trilogy there would be 17 academy awards rather than
just 11, how would that effect the mean and median? Which measure of central tendency would best
describe the data now?

5) Frederick takes four tests in his history class. The first three test scores are 80, 72, and 79. What would
he need to score on his fourth test in order to have an average of 82 for his tests?

6) For a set of data containing all whole numbers, are the mean, median and mode necessarily whole
numbers? Explain.
7) The Human Resources department of a large company wants to recruit new employees to work at the
company. The mean salary for all employees is $53,217. The median salary for employees is $64,225. The
mode salary is 51,500. Which measure of center would be the best one to publish when trying to recruit
new employees? Explain your reasoning.

For #8 9: The bar graph below shows the median wages of full time 1
Total represents median annual earnings
workers ages 25 34, in categories based on their education, in 2011. of all full-time, full-year wage and salary
workers ages 25-34.

2
Total represents median annual earnings
of young adults with a bachelors degree or
higher.

NOTE: Full-year workers refers to those

who were employed 50 or more weeks
during the previous year; full-time workers
refers to those who were usually employed
35 or more hours per week.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education,

National Center for Education Statistics.
(2013). The Condition of Education 2013
(NCES 2013037), Annual Earnings of
Young Adults.

8) Find the range of the median wages for workers aged 25 34 in 2011.

9) Draw a conclusion about wages of full-time employees in 2011, and justify your conclusion by using
information given in the bar graph.

For #10 12: A quiz is given to 14 students, with the results below.
5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 10
10) Find the mean and mode of the quiz scores.

11) Find the median and range of the quiz scores.

12) A 15th student is given the quiz, and earns a score of 2. Which measure of center is changed the most by
this new score; the mean, the median, or the mode?
For 13-16 use the diagram to the right, comparing salaries (in thousands of dollars) for people in
marketing jobs with people with researching jobs.

13) Find the IQR (Interquartile Range) for the marketing box plot.

14) Find the difference between the ranges for the two box plots.

15) Approximately what percentage of people with research jobs earn

between $100,000 and $125,000 per year?

16) The mean base salary for people with marketing jobs is $167,000 per year. How much more is this than
the median for people with marketing jobs?

17) Which value cannot be found on a box plot?

A) median B) range C) IQR D) mean

For #18 19: The two histograms below show the number of points scored by two players, Susan and
Maria, in 25 games.

18) What could be the range of Marias scores?

A. 58 points
B. 48 points
C. 28 points
D. 8 points

19) Which girl has a higher median, Susan or Maria?

For #20 24, use the box plots below, comparing test scores for two classes.

Period 3

30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Period 6

20) True or false? Period 3 has a smaller IQR than period 6.

21) For period 3, what percentage of students scored between 70 and 95 on the test?

22) For period 6, what percentage of students scored between 65 and 90 on the test?

23) Which class had the highest score out of both classes?

24) Does period 6 have any outliers? Explain.

25) Use quartiles to identify any outliers in the stem-and-leaf plot shown.
0 0
1 7 8 9
2 1 4 6 7 7 9
3 5