4 Families at a school in Manchester were surveyed

MATHEMATICS · Multi-part · A Level · Mathematics · Data presentation and interpretation · Data presentation and interpretation

Problem

4 Families at a school in Manchester were surveyed, and the number of children in each family was recorded. The results of the survey are shown alongside.
Number of childrenFrequency
15
228
315
48
52
61
*Total*59
(1) Calculate the: - mean - mode - median. (2) The average British family has 2.075 children. How does this school compare to the national average? (3) Describe the skewness of the data. (4) How has the skewness of the data affected the measures of the centre of the data set?

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