Tania recorded the number of butterflies she saw on her daily runs each day for a week. The numbers are: 1, 8, 2, 2, 5, 6, and 4. Find the mean, median, and mode of the data. Which measure(s) are appropriate to accurately summarize the data?

Answer 1

mean: add 'em up and divide by 7
median: sort low-to-high; the median is the middle value
mode: the value which occurs most