Descriptive statistics – mean, median, mode - One Line Questions
1.
What is the mean of the dataset: 5, 5, 5, 5, 5? —
5
2.
What is the mean of the dataset: -2, 0, 2, 4, 6? —
2
3.
If a dataset has no repeating values, what is its mode? —
Undefined
4.
What is the mean of the dataset: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0? —
0
5.
What is the mean of the dataset: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5? —
3
6.
What is the mode of the dataset: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4? —
3
7.
What is the median of the dataset: 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3? —
1.5
8.
What is the mode of the dataset: 10, 12, 10, 15, 12, 10, 18? —
10
9.
What is the median of the dataset: 25, 10, 30, 15, 20? —
20
10.
What is the median of the dataset: 100, 10, 1000, 100, 10000? —
100
11.
What is the mode of the dataset: 11, 13, 15, 13, 11, 13, 17? —
13
12.
What is the median of the dataset: 12, 14, 16, 18, 20? —
16
13.
Calculate the mean of the dataset: 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. —
20
14.
What is the median of the dataset: 7, 2, 9, 4, 5? —
5
15.
What is the median of the dataset: 10, 20, 30, 40? —
25
16.
Calculate the mean of the dataset: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60. —
35
17.
What is the median of the dataset: 15, 25, 35, 45? —
30
18.
What is the mode of the following dataset: 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6? —
5
19.
What is the median of the dataset: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6? —
3.5
20.
Consider the dataset: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13. What is the median? —
5
21.
What is the mean of the dataset: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9? —
5
22.
Calculate the mean of the dataset: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. —
6
23.
Consider the dataset: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. What is the mean? —
15
24.
What is the median of the dataset: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90? —
70
25.
What is the mean of the following numbers: 3, 6, 9, 12? —
7.5
26.
What is the mode of the dataset: 7, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10? —
7 and 10
27.
What is the mode of the dataset: A, B, C, B, D, B, E? —
B
28.
Which of the following distributions would have the mode as the highest point? —
A symmetrical distribution
29.
What is the sum of deviations of all values from the mean of a dataset? —
Always equal to zero.
30.
What is the mode of the dataset: apple, banana, orange, banana, apple, banana? —
banana
31.
Which of the following is a property of the median? —
Exactly half the data points are above it.
32.
Which measure of central tendency is determined by the position of values in an ordered list? —
Median
33.
Which of the following is NOT a measure of central tendency? —
Variance
34.
Which measure is best used when dealing with ordinal data? —
Median
35.
Which measure of central tendency is used to identify the most common category in a qualitative dataset? —
Mode
36.
Which measure of central tendency is least useful for describing a dataset with a wide range of values and a few extreme outliers? —
Mean
37.
Which measure is most appropriate for nominal data? —
Mode
38.
Which measure is least affected by the presence of outliers in a dataset? —
Median
39.
Which of the following is a measure of dispersion, not central tendency? —
Standard Deviation
40.
In a negatively skewed distribution (tail to the left), how are the mean, median, and mode typically related? —
Mean < Median < Mode
41.
For a dataset that is perfectly symmetrical, which of the following is true? —
Mean = Median = Mode
42.
Which measure of central tendency is most affected by extreme values (outliers)? —
Mean
43.
If a dataset contains the values: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and an outlier of 100 is added, which measure of central tendency will change the most? —
Mean
44.
Which measure of central tendency is the geometric center of the data? —
Mean
45.
In a positively skewed distribution (tail to the right), how are the mean, median, and mode typically related? —
Mode < Median < Mean
46.
Which measure of central tendency is appropriate for interval or ratio data? —
Mean, Median, and Mode
47.
In a dataset of 100 observations, what is the position of the median? —
The average of the 50th and 51st observations.
48.
What does the median represent in a dataset? —
The middle value when the data is ordered.
49.
What is the primary purpose of descriptive statistics? —
To summarize and describe the main features of a dataset.
50.
If a dataset has multiple values that occur with the same highest frequency, what is it called? —
Multimodal