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Data Management

Conducting a Survey

1) Steven is planning a survey for his classroom. He wants to find out

their favourite food for lunch at school. Which of the following
would be the best question for Steven to ask in his survey?
a. What is your favourite food?
b. What is your friends’ favourite food?
c. What is your favourite food for lunch at school?
d. Which is your favourite food—a sandwich or soup?

2) Create your own survey question with at least 5 options. Fill out the
chart below. Do not worry about conducting this survey.

Survey Question: _______________________________________________________

Option 1:

Option 2:

Option 3:

Option 4:

Option 5:

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Mean, Median, Mode and Range

Answer the definition questions below.

1) This method is achieved when you organize the data from least to
greatest, and find the middle number.
a. Mean
b. Median
c. Mode
d. Range

2) How do you find the Mode?

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3) This method is achieved by adding all of the numbers in the data

together, and then dividing by the amount of numbers you have in
the data set.
a. Mean
b. Median
c. Mode
d. Range

4) The Range is:

a. Ordering numbers from least to greatest and dividing by the
amount of numbers you have
b. Taking the highest number and subtracting it from the lowest
number
c. The most frequent number
d. A plot that has dots to represent the data

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Mean, Median, Mode and Range

Using the set of data below, create a stem and leaf plot, and find the
mean, median and mode.

22, 28, 18, 19, 14, 17, 18, 16, 10, 15, 15, 21, 19, 27, 28, 22, 20, 22, 36, 27, 32

STEM LEAF

What is the Mean? ____________________________________________________

What is the Median? ___________________________________________________

What is the Mode? _____________________________________________________

What is the Range? ____________________________________________________

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Below you will see 4 data sets. Find the mean, median, mode, and range
for each one of the sets.

1) 24, 40, 38, 80, 86, 44, 86, 51, 80

What is the mean? ____________________________________________________

What is the median? ___________________________________________________
What is the Mode? _____________________________________________________
What is the Range? ____________________________________________________

2) 65, 92, 45, 82, 39, 71, 11, 64

What is the mean? ____________________________________________________

What is the median? ___________________________________________________
What is the Mode? _____________________________________________________
What is the Range? ____________________________________________________

3) 1, 43, 27, 58, 2, 77, 55, 58, 20, 66, 39

What is the mean? ____________________________________________________

What is the median? ___________________________________________________
What is the Mode? _____________________________________________________
What is the Range? ____________________________________________________

4) 65, 93, 83, 18, 108, 110, 101, 99, 93, 65, 63

What is the mean? ____________________________________________________

What is the median? ___________________________________________________
What is the Mode? _____________________________________________________
What is the Range? ____________________________________________________

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Line Graph

Rock star Jim’s music album had just been released. The number of fan
followers from a leading social networking site for the first 10 days are
noted. Read the data and draw a graph on a separate sheet of grid
paper that can best represent this data.

DAYS # OF FANS
1 300

2 500

3 550

4 800

5 600

6 700

7 850

8 600

9 400

10 300

What can we infer from this data?

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Double Bar Graphs

Create a double bar graph comparing two sets of data. The data is
comparing boys and girls and their fruit preferences.

BOYS GIRLS
FRUITS #OF PEOPLE FRUITS # OF PEOPLE
Apple 35 Apple 30
Orange 30 Orange 40
Banana 10 Banana 2
Kiwi 25 Kiwi 26
Blueberry 40 Blueberry 40
Grapes 5 Grapes 7

What can you infer from this data and from your double bar graph?
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Scatter Plot

Shauna wanted to see if there was a correlation between a person’s age

and their height. She asked 18 people for their age, and recorded their
height. Create a scatter plot using Shauna’s data using a separate sheet
of grid paper, and answer the following questions below.

Age in Months Height

76 126
67 112
78 123
81 117
90 127
101 127
145 172
144 158
108 135
113 138
120 146
132 147
132 155
149 157
148 164
73 117
105 147
140 152

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1) Can you tell from your scatter plot if the youngest student is also the
shortest? Explain.
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2) What can you infer from this data? Explain.
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3) Is this a positive, negative, or no correlation? Explain.
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