Question

A grocery store has three locations: Central, North, and South. The grocery store counted the number of cantaloupes sold at each of the three locations each day for a month. The table shows the mean and the mean absolute deviation of the number of cantaloupes sold each day.
Which statements are correct?
Choose exactly two answers that are correct.
Store location Mean number of sales MAD
Central 45 4.1
North 47 5.7
South 29 5.9

a. The number of cantaloupes sold at Central varied less than did the number sold at North.

b. The number of cantaloupes sold at Central varied more than did the number sold at South.

c. The number of cantaloupes sold at Central and South varied about the same amount.

d. The number of cantaloupes sold at North and South varied about the same amount.
What is the MAD of the data set?
{10, 9, 16, 5, 10}
Dr. Oguz counted the number of cubs in 10 tiger cub litters and then arranged the numbers from smallest to largest. The numbers of cubs in each litter were 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, and 6. The mean of these measurements is 3.
What is the mean absolute deviation?

a. 1.2

b. 1.5

c. 2

d. 12
Tamar surveyed six friends, asking each how many times he or she had ridden in a helicopter. The numbers of times she recorded were 0, 0, 0, 1, 3, and 8.
What is the mean absolute deviation of the number of times? Round to the nearest tenth, if needed.

a. 0 times

b. 2 times

c. 2.3 times

d. 2.5 times
Four friends played cards. Their final scores were –6, –3, 0, and 1.
What is the mean absolute deviation of their scores?

Answer 1

The answers for the first question would be:

 a) The number of cantaloupes sold at Central varied less than did the number sold at North.

and 

d.) The number of cantaloupes sold at North and South varied about the same amount.

The MAD of the given data set is 2.4. 

The MAD of the number of cubs is a) 1.2.

The MAD of the number of times her friends rode the helicopter is c) 2.3 times.

The MAD of the scores of the four friends who played cards is 2.5.