This activity introduces the ideas of central tendency, range and spread. Learners calculate the mean, the median and mode for ungrouped data. They organise this data into groups and construct a grouped frequency table and histogram of the raw data. They do this to compare the wage structures of two companies where there are differences in variance and spread.

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