Very difficult statistics (mean, median, and mode; etc)

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To launch its latest mobile phone, the supplier Superhub, organized a competition where the players compete in a game played on the new mobile phone. The winner of the competition will be crowned the Superhub Champ and stands to win attractive prizes. After a total of 8 games, Kim and Ali emerged with the highest total score of 160 each. Their individual scores for each of the 8 games are shown in the table below:

Game  |  One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven |  Eight |  Total  |
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Kim   |   8  | 12  |  10   |  16  |  18  | 15  |   18  |   63   |   160   |
Ali   |  10  | 14  |  10   |  17  |  19  | 15  |   25  |   50   |   160   |

As there can be only one winner for this competition, Superhub decides that the winner will be the player with the higher “average” score.

1. Using the mean, median and mode, determine who should be crowned the
Superhub Champ and explain why you choose/ did not choose the other 2 indicators.

2. Eliminate the highest data for Kim and Ali.

3. Using the mean, median and mode again, determine if the same person in
Question 1 will still be crowned the Superhub Champ and explain why you
choose/ did not choose the other 2 indicators.

4. How can the statistical data reflect the accuracy of the mean, mode and median? Explain your finding through this activity.

 

[mcrae]

try posting your work and where you are having problems next time.

1. look up the definition of mean, note Superhub wants the player with the higher average score

2. not sure where the problem would be here

3. if you know how to calculate the mean, median, mode, this shoudl be easy enough.
mean: (sum of values)/(number of values)
median: middlemost number in a set of values.
mode: number that occurs the most