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Checking understanding of the mean

The starter and exit quiz of the lesson “Checking understanding of the mean”, from the unit “Numerical summaries of data” (Year 8 Maths) by Oak National Academy.

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12 questions

  1. The sum of 6, 8, 3, 5, and 7 is ___.
  2. 6 friends share 42 sweets equally. Each friend receives ___ sweets.
  3. Match each word with the correct operation.
  4. Which of the following has an answer of 5?
  5. Eight pupils each roll a dice seven times. There are ___ rolls of the dice altogether.
  6. There are 40 students that need to be sorted into equal groups. How many different group sizes could there be? ___
  7. The (arithmetic) mean for a set of numerical data is the sum of the values ___ by the number of values. It is a measure of central tendency representing the average of the data.
  8. Which of these towers of blocks have a mean of 4?
  9. The mean for this data set: 5, 4, 7, 5, 8, 2, 9, 3, 5, 2 is ___
  10. What is the mean of the data shown on this dot plot? ___
  11. Match each total with the number of data values and mean.
  12. A large data set has 620 pieces of data and a total of 3906. The mean of the data set is ___ .

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Checking understanding of the mean · Examplary