3. Describing Data Numerically

Find the mode of the data in the stemplot below.

Find the mode of the data in the table below. Is the data unimodal, bimodal, or multimodal?

Extending Concepts

Trimmed Mean To find the 10% trimmed mean of a data set, order the data, delete the lowest 10% of the entries and the highest 10% of the entries, and find the mean of the remaining entries.

b. Compare the four measures of central tendency, including the midrange.

Constructing Data Sets In Exercises 5– 8, construct the described data set. The entries in the data set cannot all be the same.

Mean and median are the same and the data is bimodal.

Using and Interpreting Concepts

Finding and Discussing the Mean, Median, and Mode In Exercises 17–34, find the mean, the median, and the mode of the data, if possible. If any measure cannot be found or does not represent the center of the data, explain why.

College Credits The number of credits being taken by a sample of 14 full-time college students for a semester

12 14 16 15 13 14 15

18 16 16 12 16 15 17