Question

Members of a junior high basketball team want to brag about how tall they are. First, they measured each player’s height in inches. Now they have to decide whether the mean or the median is better. Which measure of center should the team use? Basketball team’s height (in inches) 64, 67, 83, 65, 66, 62, 69

Answer 1

68, 66, mean

Explanation:

Answer 2

First to find the median we need to put the numbers in order from least to greatest.

62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 83

Now take a number from each side

64, 65, 66, 67, 69

Once again.

65, 66, 67

On last time

66

So the median is 66.

Now to find the mean we must add all the numbers up

64+67+83+65+66+62+69

which equals 476

Now divide 476 by the total number of heights which is 7

476/7=68

So the mean is 68

Answers: Mean; 68 Median; 66