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6th grade (Eureka Math/EngageNY)
Unit 6: Lesson 2
Topic B: Summarizing a distribution that is approximately symmetric using the mean and mean absolute deviation- Statistics intro: Mean, median, & mode
- Mean, median, & mode example
- Calculating the mean
- Calculating the mean
- Calculating the mean: data displays
- Missing value given the mean
- Mean as the balancing point
- Missing value given the mean
- Median & range puzzlers
- Median & range puzzlers
- Impact on median & mean: removing an outlier
- Impact on median & mean: increasing an outlier
- Effects of shifting, adding, & removing a data point
- Mean absolute deviation (MAD)
- Mean absolute deviation example
- Mean absolute deviation (MAD)
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Calculating the mean
Learn how to calculate the mean by walking through some basic examples & trying practice problems.
The mean is used to summarize a data set. It is a measure of the center of a data set. Let's look at an example.
Claire has 5 cookies, Brooke has 3 cookies, Deandra has 6 cookies, and Lucy has 2 cookies. Find the mean number of cookies.
Let's start by drawing a picture to show each person and their cookies:
Imagine that the girls combined all of their cookies
and then each took the same number of cookies.
Each girl would have 4 cookies. So, the mean is 4 cookies.
Key idea: We can think of the mean as the number of cookies each girl would have if they were equally distributed among the four girls.
Calculating the mean
We don't need to draw a picture every time we want to calculate the mean. Instead, we can follow these steps:
Step 1: Add up all of the data points (this is like combining all of the cookies)
Step 2: Divide the total by the number of data points in the data set (this is like each girl taking the same number of cookies)
Let's do this for the data set left brace, 7, comma, 2, comma, 8, comma, 6, comma, 7, right brace:
The mean of this data set is 6.
Calculating the mean walkthrough
Let's find the mean of the data set left brace, 2, comma, 1, comma, 2, comma, 4, comma, 5, comma, 4, right brace together.
Great! Now divide the total by the number of data points.
Now it's time to try some practice on your own.
Practice
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- how would you know when an outlier affects a data set?(3 votes)
- An outlier is a number that is far from the data set. This could be the case such as in this set:
158, 156, 85, 145, 157, 159. 85 is the outlier. Without the 85 the mean would be 155, but with the 85 the mean is about 143. Just one number makes the mean decrease by 12. An outlier always affects a data set, because an outlier is a number that is nowhere near the current set of numbers.(24 votes)
- this are so hard sorry I'm not good with math(5 votes)
- I would suggest keeping a notebook with all the math facts you have learned. Try to really get stuff pounded into your brain before you move on. For this you can use the rhyme: Hey diddle didle, the medians the middle, you add and divided for the mean, the mode is the one that appears the most, and the range is the difference between. Never skip stuff or guess randomly. Try to make sure you REALLY understand the answer. It might take a bit longer, but it's worth it in the long run. Also, don't be afraid to ask for help. I struggle with math, too. But just keep trying and I promise you'll get it. Also, just take a deep breath. It can get hard if you're super stressed. And I like to type out what I'm thinking, so if there is a problem, my teacher can figure out where I went wrong and correct it from there. Keep it up!(27 votes)
- My teacher gives me this one like eighty times a day so I know all the answers but she still keeps giving it to me. >_<(11 votes)
- Your teacher wants you to be very proficient in this I guess but now you can do it in a snap(5 votes)
- Can there be more than one mode?(5 votes)
- As you probably know, mode is the biggest set of ungrouped data. If two sets of data have the same amount, but the other data is less than the data that they have, then both of them are the modes. This is also true with 3 modes, 4 modes, 5 modes and so on.(3 votes)
- How will you find the range?(4 votes)
- The range is the difference between the highest number and the lowest number in the set, so for example lets say we have the set {10, 5, 3, 15, 25}.
The lowest number here is 3 and the highest number is 25, so the range will be 25 - 3 which is equal to 22.(3 votes)
- is there other ways to do this(5 votes)
- can you please like my other one because if you don't my mom will kill me(5 votes)
- Thanks for the lesson Khan because I am learning 5th grade math so l can avoid summer slide in fourth grade summer.😋😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀(5 votes)
- i dont understand this stuff AT ALL. I dont think i have been taught this yet to,and if i have i just dont understand it,and need someone to go over it with me. So i understand for next time.So my question is... can u help me with this and show me how to do it again, and go over it with me please. thank you if u get this. because idk where this message is going or to who.(3 votes)
- Learn what Mean is and Median then you will have it down just look the different lessons in Khan(3 votes)
- what about range, How do you figure that out?(3 votes)
- To find the range, subtract the lowest number in the data set (aka minimum) from the highest number in the data set (aka maximum).
That's it!
I hope this helps!(2 votes)