Solve each problem:
1. Cassandra’s Candles sold the following number of candles over the last 6
days: 25, 48, 25, 33, 57, 50. What was the average number of candles
sold each day?
2. Brian was comparison shopping for DVD players. He decided he wanted to purchase a DVD
player that was in the middle of the price ranges. The prices he was quoted include the following:
$59.99, $219.99, $79.99, $84.99, $159.99, $109.99, $35.99. Which DVD player did Brian
select?
3. Chad recently launched a new website. In the past six days, he has
recorded the following number of daily hits: 37, 29, 37, 56, 45, 38. He is hoping at week’s end to
have an average number of 40 hits per day. To achieve this, how many hits must he have on the
final day of the week?
4. The team scored the following number of runs in their games this season:
6, 2, 5, 9, 11, 4, 5, 8,6,7,5
If they want to end the season with an average of 6 runs per game, how many runs must they
score in their final game of the season?
5. A scientist studied the number of eggs a species of bird lays each year. He found that most common
number of eggs laid in a year is three. Which statistical measurement did the scientist find?
a. the mode of the number of eggs laid in a year
b. the range of the number of eggs laid in year
c.the median number of eggs laid in a year
d. the mean number of eggs laid in a year
6. Two mothers each have 5 kids. The first mother's kids are ages 7, 9, 13, 14, 18. The second mother's
kids are ages 6, 10, 11, 16, 19. Which mother's kids have the highest age median?
7. Two boys are competing to see how many times they can dunk a basketball per minute. The boys
dunk basketballs as fast as they can for 5 minutes. The first boy's number of basketball dunks during
each minute are as following: 27, 32, 33, 33, 26. The second boy's are as following: 28, 27, 29, 34, 30.
Which of the two boys dunked the most basketballs per minute?
8. Joe and Bill were competing against each other to see who could collect the most bottle caps. If Joe
averaged 320 and Bill averaged 340, what did each one collect in December if they collected the
following amounts in the previous months.
Joe
Bill
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May
Jun.
Jul.
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
9.
300
412
207
283
601
114
319
299
403
317
354
413
286
395
250
174
228
370
419
450
684
207
Consider the list of golf scores:
71, 68, 72, 79, 80, 77, 84, 70, 92
What is a median, mean and range for the set?
a. median=77, mean=77, range=24
b. median=80, mean=78, range=22
c. median=81, mean=77, range=23
10. Three golfers are competing for the longest distance. Their major distances in yards over a period of
an hour are as follows:
First golfer: 260, 267, 234, 290, 267
Second golfer: 261, 260, 260, 273, 260
Third golfer: 287, 281, 276, 260, 281
Which golfer has the highest mode?
11. Five basketball players try to make as many points as possible in each game. They have a mean of
12 points per game. If the first four players score 10, 14, 20, and 8 points each, how many points must
the fifth player have made?
a.
b.
c.
d.
20 points
8 points
12 points
10 points