Fitness Mia's workouts lasted 1.0 h, 1.5 h, 2.25 h, 1.5 h, 2.4 h, and 2.1 h. How do you find the mean, median, and mode of these times?
1 Answer
The mean is
Explanation:
To find the mean, add the numbers together and divide that sum by
So, the mean is approximately
To find the median, order the numbers from least to greatest and find the center number. Since there are an even number of values in this set, the center with be equal to the average of the middle two numbers.
Ordered data:
Median:
So, the median is
The mode is the number (or numbers) which appears most frequently in the set. Sometimes there is one mode, sometimes there are several modes, and sometimes there is no mode. For this data set,
So, the mode is