Statistics

In Unit 10, we are learning about statistics. Measures of central tendency or “average” are arguably the most common statistics we use in day to day life. For this discussion, we will see how measures of central tendency can be used to make comparisons when we are considering a major purchase.

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You are looking for a home in your area. Go to a website that shows home prices in your area and allows you to search based on specific criteria. Identify at least three criteria (e.g., number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, square footage, type of heat) you can use to narrow your search and find the prices of at least ten homes. Do not include price as one of the criteria as we would like to see a range of prices.

• What criteria did you use in your home search?
• List the prices (ten or more) of the homes you found.
• Find the mean, median, mode (if applicable), of the home prices. If there is no mode, explain why.

Explain your calculations and show all work. Review an example of a response for this Discussion.