The following number of goals were scored by a team in a series of 10 matches: 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 1, 3, 3, 4, 3 Find the mean, median and mode of these scores.

 Solution:

Mean = Average = Sum of all the observations/Total number of observations

= (2+3+4+5+0+1+3+3+4+3)/10

= 28/10

= 2.8

Median,

To find the median, we first arrange the data in ascending order.

0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5

Here,

Number of observations (n) = 10

Since the number of observations are even, the median can be calculated as:

= 3

Mode,

To find the mode, we first arrange the data in ascending order.

0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5.

Here,

We find that 3 occurs most frequently (4 times)

∴ Mode = 3