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Exercises: Summarizing Data Sets

Show your work. Always state units when interpreting your answers.

Grade 6·22 problems·~45 min·Common Core Math - Grade 6·standard·6-sp-b-5
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Fluency Practice

Compute each summary statistic. Show your work step by step.

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Data set (sorted): {5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20}. This data set has   ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲   values (even count). The two middle values are   ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲   and   ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲   . The median = average of these two =   ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲   .

number of values:
lower middle value:
upper middle value:
median: