2)

Ms. Smith, a math teacher, recently gave a mathematics quiz in her class. The ten quiz scores

were:

89

87

93

90

12

91

88

87

83

91

a)

Based on the test scores above, would you say the class did well? Why or why not?

b)

If you were Ms. Smith, which average would you use to describe the data: mean, median, or

mode?

3)

Suppose that five graduating seniors on a college basketball team receive the following first-

year contract offers to play in the National Basketball Association (zero indicates that the

player did not receive a contract offer):

0

0

0

0

$10,000,000

The college claimed that the average senior on this basketball team received a $2 million

contract offer.

a)

Explain how the college came up with this number and why this statement may be misleading.

b)

Would another measure of central tendency be a better representative of the data? Support