1. Frequency Tables – Averages – Demonstration
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2. 1 2 3 4 John recorded the amount of goals
his football team scored each match. 1 2 3 4
How can we easily find the
Mean, Mode and Median
from this data?

3. John recorded the amount of goals
his football team scored each match. 1 2 3 4
How can we easily find the
Mean, Mode and Median
from this data?
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4
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4. John recorded the amount of goals
his football team scored each match. 1 2 3 4
How can we easily find the
Mean, Mode and Median
from this data?
Frequency
Total
games
Goals
Tally
Total goals =
Mean =
1.3 goals 8 1 7 7 2 5 10
Mode =
0 goals 3 4 12
13th match 4 1 4
Median =
1 goal
Totals: 25 33

5. Sarah recorded the amount of hits
she got over 25 baseball games. 3 2 4 1
How can we easily find the
Mean, Mode and Median
from this data?
Frequency
Total
games
Hits
Tally
Total hits =
Mean =
2.1 hits 4 1 5 5 2 6 12
Mode =
2 hits 3 5 15
13th game 4 5 20
Median =
2 hits
Totals: 25 52

6. Find the mean, mode and median for these sets of data.
Mark recorded the sweets he ate every day.
Anna recorded the passengers in
cars on her local road. 1 3 4 2 4 3 2 1 5
Total
days
Sweets
Tally
Total sweets
Totals:
Mean = 2.0
Mode = 3
Median = 2
Mean = 1.9
Mode = 0 & 3
Median = 2

7. Answers Find the mean, mode and median for these sets of data.
Mark recorded the sweets he ate every day.
Anna recorded the passengers in
cars on her local road. 1 3 4 2 4 3 2 1 5
Total
days
Sweets
Tally
Total sweets
Total
cars 5
Passengers
Tally
Total pass. 1 4 4 7 2 5 10 1 6 6 3 7 21 2 5 10 4 4 16 3 7 21
Totals: 25 51 4 4 16 5 1 5 58
Mean = 2.0
Mode = 3
Median = 2
Totals: 30
Answers
Mean = 1.9
Mode = 0 & 3
Median = 2

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