Mr Squiggle bought 13 pencils.
He bought:
- one packet of 10 pencils for $14.50, and
- another packet of 3 pencils for $5.65
What is the mean price of the 13 pencils?
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Mr Squiggle bought 13 pencils.
He bought:
What is the mean price of the 13 pencils?
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In Wadonga, there are 29 538 people.
Each day, the average person uses 168 litres of water.
Which of these gives the best estimate for the total number of litres of water used in Wadonga each day?
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Five students do a standing long jump at their athletics carnival and the length of their jumps, in centimetres, are recorded in the table below.
If Kath's distance is removed from the data, what happens to the mean distance that is jumped from this group?
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It increases |
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It decreases |
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There is no change |
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It is not possible to tell |
This graph shows the number of goals a soccer team scored in a full season.
One match incorrectly recorded the team scoring no goals when they scored one.
What effect does this have on the mean and mode of the data?
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The mean decreases and the mode changes. |
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The mean increases and the mode changes. |
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The mean decreases and the mode does not change. |
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The mean increases and the mode does not change. |
Malcolm will travel by bus for 18 days during November.
A daily ticket will cost him $7.40 and a monthly ticket will cost him $109.80.
What is Malcolm's average daily saving on days he travels by bus if he buys a monthly ticket?
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Here is a set of 8 scores.
What will change if score 28 is removed from the set?
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mean and mode |
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mean and median |
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mean only |
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mean and range |
A kindergarten class has 15 students. The average (mean) weight of a child in the class is 24 kilograms.
5 new children join the class and the average class weight increases to 26 kilograms.
What was the average weight of the 5 new children?
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Percy bought 8 packets of cough lollies for $18.00.
The average cost of one packet is
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The points scored by a basketball team in their first 11 games of the season is recorded.
In the 12th game, they scored 58.
Which of these values would increase?
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Lea collects comic books.
She sells some of them.
The selling prices are listed below.
What is their mean (average) price?
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In 4 games of netball, Finn scores 7, 14, 11 and 11 goals.
In the fifth game, she scores a season high 23 goals.
Which of these will not change after Finn's fifth game.
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the median of her goal scores |
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the mean of her goal scores |
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the range of her goal scores |
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the total number of her goal scores |
A vet measured the height of 21 dogs that came through his clinic.
The vet recorded the length of each dog.
What is the median length?
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A college basketball team has 10 players with the following heights.
What is the range of heights?
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In 2009, an estimated 1.7 million registrations were made by Australian children to participate in organised sport outside school.
The average cost of one registration was estimated at $392.
What was the total amount paid for registrations in 2009?
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Riley's basketball team has 5 players.
The height of each player is listed below (in cm):
What is the median height of these players?
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The mean height of students at a Year 9 class is 155 cm.
The median height of the same class is 145 cm.
A new student joins the class who is 165 cm tall.
Which of these is possible?
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The mean height stays the same and the median height increases. |
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The mean height stays the same and the median height decreases. |
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The mean height decreases and the median height increases. |
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The mean height increases and the median height stays the same. |
Over 5 games, Ramesh recorded the following scores when playing cricket.
What was his mean score?