Question

Eight children grew pumpkins and entered them in the local farmers market pumpkin contest.

The judges weighed each one (in pounds). The following is the weights of the pumpkins:

Carmen = 23.2 pounds
Noah = 23.3 pounds
Sophia = 24.9 pounds
Cole = 20 pounds
Darren = 24.4 pounds
Mohammad = 23.8 pounds
Finn - 22.5 pounds
Leah = 25.2 pounds

Please explain which of the following is incorrect:

Mean= 23.4125 pounds
Median= 23.355 pounds
Mode= 0 pounds
Range= 5.2 pounds

Answer 1

I would say median is incorrect.

Teacher should have written mode as “none”, because there isn’t one. No number appears more often than the others. The Mean is correct (add up all the weights, divide by 8), the range is correct (subtract lowest weight from highest), but the Median is the average of the two middle numbers, 23.3 and 23.8, which is 23.55, not 23.355.

Answer 2

mode is wrong

Explanation:

i think the mode is wrong as it not 0 none of the numbers are repeated so you would say the mode is 23.2, 23.3, 24.9, 20, 24.4, 23.8, 22.5, 25.2 as they all appear the same amount of times which is oncw