MINI LESSON

Central Tendency and Dispersion

Measures of central tendency describe the center of a data set.

Common measures include the mean and median.

Measures of dispersion describe how spread out the data are.

Standard deviation and interquartile range are common measures of spread.

Question 1

The geometry test scores for Andrea and Joe are shown in the table below. Which statement about their test scores is correct?

Question 2

The table below shows the highest temperatures recorded in August for several years in one town. The interquartile range of these data is