Mean, Mode, Range, Average, Median?

Question

Can someone give me a definition of each of the following math terms?

Mean-
Mode-
Range-
Average-
Median-

I just need definitions! I'm not asking any1 to do my work 4 me! Plzz help and no websites PLZ

Thanx Sportychick!

mjgirl219, Jessica R & nolechickie! Thanks

And By the way chazzer, we do a thing called Accelerated Math! We don't use a book! So No, I couldn't look it up! But thanx any way

I would list every 1 but it would take a long time but thanks to everyone!

Answer 1

The mean and the average are the same thing. To find this, you add up all of the values given and divide by the number there are.
Example, 3, 5, 7, 9
Add them up 24 divided by the number there are (4).
Answer: The mean (average) = 6

The mode is the number that occurs most frequently.
Example: 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8.
Answer: 5 (it occurs 4 times)

The range is the difference between the highest value and the lowest value.
Example using the above numbers: 1 is the lowest, 8 is the highest.
Answer: Range is 7

The median is the number that occurs in the middle of the range of numbers. For this, you have to know how many numbers there are. If there are an odd amount of numbers, then you just find the number smack dab in the middle, when they're arranged in numerical order from lowest to highest. If it is an even number, then you find the two that are in the middle, add them together, and divide by 2.
Example for even: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 2, 4, 6
Arrange them in order: 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7
Find the 2 middle numbers: 4, 4
Add them together, divide by 2: 8/2 = 4
Answer: median is 4

Example for odd: 3, 4, 2, 9, 8, 7, 6
Arrange in order: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
Find the middle number: 6
Answer: 6

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Mean-see average
Mode-The Number or numbers that appears most often in a list of data. 5, 32, 5, 654, 768, 5, 12,13,5 In this list of data the number 5 is the mode.
Range-The difference between the largest number and the smallest number in a list.
Average-The number found when the sum or two or more Numbers is divided by the number or addends in the sum; also called mean.
Median-The middle number of a list of data when the numbers are arranged in order from the least of the greatest. Hope this help those are the exact detinitions from my math book.

Answer 3

Mean - The mean is the same as the average. Add up the series of numbers and divide the sum by the number of values.
Mode - The mode in a list of numbers refers to the list of numbers that occur most frequently. A trick to remember this one is to remember that mode starts with the same first two letters that most does. Most frequently - Mode.
Median - The Median is the 'middle value' in your list or series of numbers. When the totals of the list are odd, the median is the middle entry in the list after sorting the list into increasing order. When the totals of the list are even, the median is equal to the sum of the two middle (after sorting the list into increasing order) numbers divided by two.
Range - The difference between the maximum and the minimum in a set of data.
Average - The middle or most common in a set of data. There are three types of average in mathematics - the mean, the median and the mode.

hope these help!

Answer 4

mean- the average, you add all numbers together and then divide by however many you had.

range- subtract smallest number from the biggest number.

median- the middle number of all listed. 3, 6, 7, 2, 1 the median is 7.

im not sure about mode, but average and mean are the same thing.

Answer 5

Mean-The answer for your average
Mode-The number used the most.
Range-the biggest number subtracted by the smallest number.
Average-Add all your numbers and divide them by how many numbers you added. For instance 1+2+3= 6 divide by 3 is 2.
Median- The number in the middle

Answer 6

The mean is the sum of all of your numbers devided by how many numbers there happens to be in the data set.

The mode is the number in the data set which is found most often.

The range is the smallest number of your data set subtracted from the largest number in your data set.

The average is simply another name for the mean.

The median is the middle number on an ordered data set.
(ordered data set is like if you had the data set 2, 5, 9, 6, 1, the ordered data set would be 1, 2, 5, 6, 9.)

Answer 7

Mean- the average of all the numbers given-- add up all the numbers given and divide by the number of numbers
mode- the number that appears or is repeated the most often
range-the largest number minus the smallest number
average- same as mean
median- when all numbers are placed in order, this is the middle number in the group, should two numbers be at the center, you find the average of the two center numbers.

Answer 8

mean - an average
mode - the number in a set that occurs most often
range - the difference between the largest and smallest numbers in a set
average - the number that best represents all the numbers of a set
median - the middle number in a given set of numbers

Answer 9

mean- same as average
mode-most used
range- bottom num and top
ave- is bottom times the top
median-middle number

Answer 10

Ahh, statistics! They have these in psychology also. They should be easy to look up, doesn't your book have a glossary in the back?