Algebra 1 : How to find range

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Example Questions

Example Question #81 : How To Find Range

Find the range of the following set of numbers:

 

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To find the range of any set, find the highest value in the set, and the lowest value in the set, then calculate the difference between them by subtracting the lowest value from the highest value.  The best answer is:

Example Question #655 : Statistics And Probability

Find the range of the following set of numbers:

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To find the range of any set, find the highest value in the set, and the lowest value in the set, then calculate the difference between them by subtracting the lowest value from the highest value.  The best answer is:

Example Question #81 : How To Find Range

Find the range of the following set of numbers:

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the range of any set, find the highest value in the set, and the lowest value in the set, then calculate the difference between them by subtracting the lowest value from the highest value.  The best answer is:

Example Question #82 : How To Find Range

Find the range of the following set of numbers:

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the range of any set, find the highest value in the set, and the lowest value in the set, then calculate the difference between them by subtracting the lowest value from the highest value.  The best answer is:

Example Question #83 : How To Find Range

Find the range of the following data set:

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To find the range of a data set, you find the difference between the largest and the smallest number.  Given the data set

1, 3, 6, 4, 1, 6, 1, 7, 11

The smallest number is 1 and the largest is 11.  The difference of these two numbers is 10.

Therefore, the range equals 10.

Example Question #84 : How To Find Range

Find the median of the following data set:

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Find the range of the following data set:

To begin, let's put our data in increasing order:

Now, our median will simply be the middle term.

In this case, our median is 76

Example Question #85 : How To Find Range

Find the range of the dataset:  

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The range is the difference between the highest and lowest numbers in the data set.

The highest number is 6.  The smallest number is negative eight.  Subtract both numbers.

The answer is:  

Example Question #86 : How To Find Range

Find the range of the following data set:

4, 2, 7, 8, 8, 2, 8, 11, 7

If necessary, round your answer to the nearest whole number.

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To find the range of a data set, you find the difference of the smallest and largest number.  Given the data set

4, 2, 7, 8, 8, 2, 8, 11, 7

the smallest number is 2 and the largest number is 11.  The difference of these two numbers is

Therefore, the range of the data set is 9.

Example Question #87 : How To Find Range

Find the range of the dataset:  

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The range is the difference of the highest and the lowest numbers.

The highest number is 74.  The lowest number is negative three.  

The range is .

Example Question #2091 : Algebra 1

Find the range of the following set of numbers:

1,1,3,7,7,8,9,12,15

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To find the range, simply subtract the smallest number from the largest. Thus,

Note that even thought he smallest number, 1, appears twice in our set, we don't subtract it twice from the largest number.

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