Question

2. A student had taken six tests and received scores of 88, 73, 81, 83, 79, 94. The seventh test

was coming up and the student wants to know:
a. What was needed on the 7th test to have a mean score of 83. Find the 7th test score.
b. Find the median and mode using the 7th test score from part a.
Median
Mode:

Answer 1

a) 83

b) mean and mode are both 83

Explanation:

a) mean is the average. so add all the numbers and divide by the number of numbers.

88 + 73 + 81 + 83 + 79 + 94 + T = 83

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b) median - put the numbers in numerical order, smallest to largest, what is the middle number (4th number) 73, 79, 81, 83, 83, 88, 94

mode - which number shows up most frequently?