Question

1. Amelia recorded the average rainfall amount, in inches, for two cities over the course of a few months. City A: {5, 4, 3, 5, 5, 4, 2} City B: {3, 6, 7, 3, 8, 3} (a) What is the mean monthly rainfall amount for each city? Please show your work! (b) What is the median for each city? Please show your work! (c) What is the mode for each city? (d) What is the range for each city?

Answer 1

City A:
Mean: Add them all to get 28 and divide by 7 to get 4.
Median: Put them in order and the middle number is 4.
Mode: The most frequent number is 5.
Range: 5 - 2 = 3

City B:
Mean: Add them all to get 30 and divide by 6 to get 5.
Median: Put them in order and the middle number is 4.5
Mode: The most frequent number is 3.
Range: 8 - 3 = 5