Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Ace-learning Quiz on Set Theory

Please complete a quiz on Set Theory during the Sept hols as well....

Only 10 MCQ questions... but I'd recommend you get ready a piece of paper and your calculator as you will need to work out the answers.

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Jounal Assignment for September holidays

Chapter 10: Measures of Central Tendency

  1. Consider a company that has nine employees with salaries of $35 000 a year, and their supervisor makes $150 000 a year. If you want to describe the typical / most common salary in the company, which measure will you use – Mean, median or mode? Explain your answer.
  2. If you are the recruiting officer for the company and want to make a good impression on prospective employees, what would you tell them?
  3. Hence, does the mean always give a realistic picture of a certain situation? Explain why.

YOUR TASK

- Answer the above questions based on your knowledge of mean, median and mode.

- This assignment is graded (upon 10 marks)

- Marks will be awarded on 1) Content & Knowledge, 2) Effort & participation

- Click on the 'comments' link below to do your assignment. Remember to write in your register number as well as your name!

last but not least, do enjoy your class outing as well as your sept hols! =)