Mean, Median, and Mode
10th Grade · Math · 60 min
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Learning Objective
I can calculate and interpret the mean, median, and mode of a data set and explain how outliers affect each measure.
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The mean is calculated by summing all values in a dataset and dividing by the number of values, while the median is the middle value when the data is ordered.
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The median is more resistant to outliers than the mean, making it a better measure of central tendency for skewed data.
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The mode is the value that appears most frequently in a dataset, and a dataset can have no mode, one mode (unimodal), or multiple modes.
