Okay. Let's practice metrics.
You can sign our guest book too.
With your class or with a few friends, get as much of
the following information as possible for each person.
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Your name
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Your city and state
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Today's date.
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Your height in meters.
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Your weight in kilograms.
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The amount of your lunch drink in mililiters.
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Your time zone.
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The high temperature for today.
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The low temperature for today.
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Name of your state or country capital.
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The distance to your capital.
Now that you have your information, it is time to analyze
it. Figure out the mean, the median and the
mode of your heights, weights and lunch drinks of your class or group.
Mean is the average. Add up the values and divide
by the number of values. For example, to find the mean of 7, 8, 8, 9, 8,
and 6, first add them. That is 46. Then divide by the number of items which
is 6. 46 divided by 6 equals about 7.6. So the mean is 7.6.
Median is the middle number. If no one middle number
exists, add the two middle numbers and divide by two. Find the middle number
of these numbers: 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9. The middle number here is 8. So the
median is 8.
Mode is the number that occurs most often. In the
above, 8 is the value that occurs most often. So 8 is the mode.
Now, please enter your information in the form below.
Revised: 12
Feb 1998 12:50:44 -0500.