Across
- 3. The middle number when numbers are in ascending or descending order.
- 5. A set of data that has two modes.
- 9. income, A person’s income before all taxes are deducted.
- 11. Mathematics that deals with the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data.
- 13. data set, Describes a situation in which the mean of the data set is not equal to the median.
- 15. expense, Costs for goods or services that are nonessential.
Down
- 1. income, What remains of income after taxes are deducted; used for two types of expenses: essential expenses and discretionary expenses.
- 2. A set of numbers.
- 3. of central tendency, Single indicators, such as the mean, median, and mode, designed to represent a “typical” value for the data. The mean and the median are numeric while the mode can be a non-numerical value.
- 4. The most often occurring value in a data set; there can be more than one mode or no modes at all. It does not have to be numerical.
- 6. distribution, A table that lists each piece of data in the set and the frequency, or the number of times that it appears in the data set.
- 7. Often referred to as average; the sum of all the numbers in a data set divided by the number of elements in the data set.
- 8. expense, Expense that cannot be eliminated from a person’s day-to-day life; might include rent or mortgage payments, utility bills, medical expenses, food, loan payments.
- 10. Small numbers used to indicate position in a data set such as to name quartiles, or in a list of numbers.
- 12. Numbers in a data set that are extreme values; calculate outliers in a data set by multiplying 1.5 times the IQR; subtract this product from Q1 to compute the boundary for lower outliers and add this value to Q3 to compute the boundary for upper outliers.
- 14. A counter.