Mean, median, mode, range

Answer Key - Grade 6 Math Worksheet - Challenge Me

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1. 1.

   Luz asked thirteen children how many turns they took on the swing: 5, 12, 8, 3, 10, 7, 14, 9, 5, 11, 4, 12, 2. The swing creaked happily. What is the median?

   8
2. 2.

   Milo asked fifteen children how many claps they made in ten seconds: 8, 17, 12, 6, 14, 9, 11, 20, 7, 13, 10, 15, 6, 12, 16. What is the median?

   12
3. 3.

   Noah asked ten children how many pencils are in their desks: 12, 7, 15, 9, 18, 6, 11, 14, 8, 13. One desk looked like a pencil store. What is the median?

   11.5
4. 4.

   Pia asked twelve children how many books are on their shelves at home: 3, 9, 6, 12, 4, 10, 7, 5, 11, 8, 14, 6. Some shelves are bursting. What is the median?

   7.5
5. 5.

   Tala asked twelve children how many leaves they collected: 8, 11, 9, 11, 14, 11, 8, 12, 11, 9, 13, 8. One leaf was huge. What is the mode?

   11
6. 6.

   Zee asked fourteen children how many minutes they practiced piano: 25, 30, 20, 30, 35, 30, 25, 40, 30, 20, 45, 30, 25, 35. The metronome kept the beat. What is the mode?

   30
7. 7.

   Ari asked twelve children how many buttons they sewed onto a craft project: 18, 7, 12, 15, 9, 20, 11, 8, 16, 13, 10, 14. One craft project got very fancy. What is the range?

   13
8. 8.

   Bo asked fourteen children how many seconds they balanced on one foot: 12, 25, 18, 30, 15, 22, 9, 27, 20, 16, 11, 24, 14, 28. What is the range?

   21
9. 9.

   Jun asked six children how many minutes they ride the bus. The mean number is 6. Five of them ride 3, 4, 5, 7, 2 minutes. How many minutes does the sixth child ride?

   15
10. 10.

    Kira checked five quiz scores out of 20 points. The mean score is 12. One quiz had a tricky question. Four students scored 9, 14, 10, 11. What did the fifth student score?

    16