Name:_____________________ Highland Park Middle School

Math 7, Period ___

Central Tendency and Missing Data Activity Sheet # 2

Find each piece of missing data. Show all work used to support your answer in the space
provided.

1. Mrs. Ryan was doing a science experiment where she was measuring the growth of a bean plant for 4
months. The first 3 months the plant grew 4 ½ inches, 3.75 inches, and 4 ¼ inches. How many inches
does the bean plant need to grow in the fourth month to have an average growth of 4 inches?

2. Haley, Chuck, Dana, and Chris enter a contest to see who could bake the most chocolate chip
cookies in an hour. Haley bakes 55, Chuck bakes 70, and Dana bakes 90. If they bake an average of 75
cookies, how many cookies does Chris bake?

3. Four wrestlers made a pact to lose some weight before their wrestling competition. Campbell lost 6
pounds, Alex lost 5 pounds, and Eric lost 9 pounds. If their average weight loss was 7 pounds each, over
a 3-week period of time, how many pounds did Rock lose?

4. There were five jockeys running in the last race who weighed an average of 92 pounds each. Scott
weighed 89 pounds, Harris weighed 95 pounds, and Collin and Michael weighed 90 pounds each. How
much did Cody weigh?

5. Stephen has made a 91, 96, and 95 on the first three quizzes this six weeks. If he makes the same
score on the last two quizzes, what grade does he need to make on each quiz to have a quiz average of
EXACTLY 94 this grading period?
6. The table shows Cara’s scores for 5 rounds of golf. If Cara wants an average score of 73, what
should her score be on the 6th round she plays?

Round Score
1 80
2 69
3 78
4 73
5 75
6 ?

7. The table shows the number of baseball game wins for some teams in the National League for 2001.
Team Wins
Atlanta 88
Florida 76
Houston 93
Milwaukee 68
Montreal 68
Philadelphia 66
New York 80

Find the mean, median, mode, and range in the number of wins for these teams, showing all work below.

Mean = _____

Median = _____

Mode = _____

Range = _____

8. Which measure, or measures, of central tendency would change if you added Dallas to the list with
75 wins? Circle all that apply and show all work used to support your answer below.

mean median mode range

9. Based on the data from three annual checkups, John’s mean height is 62 inches. At the first two
checkups John’s height was 58 inches and 61 inches. What was his height at the third checkup?
10. The values of a data set are 95, 93, 91, 95, 100, 99, and 92. What value can be added to the set so
that the mean, median, and mode remain the same?

11. Sasha needs an average of 30 points to move to the next level in her competition. Her scores in the
first three events are 28, 35, and 30. What score does she need in her last event to move to the next
round of competition?

12. Larson has a score of 89 for each of his first three science quizzes. The score on his fourth quiz is a
92. What score does he need on the fifth quiz to have an average of exactly 90?

13. Jake has a 95 average in math after 4 quizzes. Then he got a 0 on the next quiz due to an unexcused
absence. There will be 2 more quizzes. If he scores the same on the last 2 quizzes, what score does he
need to keep an average of at least 85?