Question

A table titled Number of Dogs Adopted has entries 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9. The total is 132.

A shelter kept track of the number of dogs adopted each day for three weeks. Use the table to find the statistical measures.

Mean:

Median:

Mode:

Range:

Answer 1

range:9-3

mode:8

median:7

mean:132

Answer 2

Mean= average, so 132/21 entries, =6.286 (don’t know what they want you to round it to...try 6.3

Median= middle of the numbers when written in order, so 7

Mode = number that occurs most often in the set, which is 8

Range = largest number - smallest number, so 9-3=6