Two students in a math class compared their scores on a series of five quizzes:

Student A Student B
4 6
9 5
3 7
8 5
9 6
Considering the concepts of both central tendency and variability, find (a) which student
tended to perform better on the quizzes and (b) which student tended to perform more
consistently on quizzes.

What would be an ideal response?


a.
A B
33
5
6.6
29
5
5.8
X
X
N X
X
N
= = = = = =
?
Student A tended to perform better on the quizzes.
b.
2
2
A
2
2
251
43.56
5
6.64
2.58
171
33.64
5
.56
.75
B
X
s X
N X
s X
N
= ?
= ?
= =
= ?
= ?
= =
? ?
Student B tended to perform more consistently on the quizzes.

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