Question

An asteroid is a small planetary body that revolves around the Sun. The asteroid belt is a band of asteroids that lie between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. Suppose that scientists measured the diameter of several of the asteroids and the results of their findings are contained in the table below.

Asteroid Number
Diameter of Asteroid (m)
Asteroid 1
58
Asteroid 2
11
Asteroid 3
89
Asteroid 4
93
Asteroid 5
61
Asteroid 6
89
Asteroid 7
68
Asteroid 8
50
Asteroid 9
43
From this table, determine the mean, median, and mode of the set.
a.
Mean = 62.4 meters
Median = 61 meters
Mode = 93 meters
c.
Mean = 62.4 meters
Median = 89 meters
Mode = 89 meters
b.
Mean = 84.8 meters
Median = 61 meters
Mode = 89 meters
d.
Mean = 62.4 meters
Median = 61 meters
Mode = 89 meters


Please select the best answer from the choices provided

A
B
C
D

Answer 1

It’s C I promise it right.

Answer 2

The asteroids are mostly found in the broad space between Mars and Jupiter, a region of the solar system called the asteroid belt. Asteroids are too small to be seen without a telescope; the first of them was not discovered until the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Discovery and Orbits of the Asteroids

In the late 1700s, many astronomers were hunting for an additional planet they thought should exist in the gap between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The Sicilian astronomer Giovanni Piazzi thought he had found this missing planet in 1801, when he discovered the first asteroid (or as it was later called, “minor planet”) orbiting at 2.8 AU from the Sun. His discovery, which he named Ceres, was quickly followed by the detection of three other little planets in similar orbits.

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