GMAT Descriptive Statistics — practice questions
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Practice GMAT Descriptive Statistics in the app →The two most widely used measures of the centre of a data set are the median and the:Adding fifty weights and dividing by fifty gives the:The number that separates ordered data into two equal halves is the:The most frequent value in a data set is the:A data set can have more than one mode as long as those values share the:Numbers that separate data into quarters are called:About what share of the data falls on or below the first quartile?To find the quartiles, you must first find the:The spread of the middle half of the data is measured by the:If the first quartile is 20 and the third is 44, the interquartile range is:An observation that does not fit with the rest of the data is called an:A histogram where a vertical line splits it into mirror halves shows a distribution that is:A histogram whose right-hand side looks chopped off compared with the left is described as:A histogram whose long tail stretches out to the higher values is:A quick graph that shows the exact values while revealing the pattern is a:The variation of data values around the centre is captured by the:A data set whose values sit closely near the mean will have a standard deviation that is:For the data 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, the most frequent value is:For that same set of ten values, the median is the average of which two ordered values?The median of that set, 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, is:Quartiles and percentiles are together described as the common measures of:The median differs from the mean in that the median does not have to be: