The Mathematics Department of Juan Sumulong High School is sending a contestant in a quiz bee competition. The teacher decided to select the contestant from among the top two performing students of section 1. With very limited data, they considered only the scores of each student in 10 quizzes.

The scores are tabulated below.

Zeny Richard

1. 11 10

2. 13 10

3. 5 12

4. 13 15

5. 7 15

6. 10 9

7. 35 13

8. 13 13

9. 9 12

Total 117 108

a. What is the mean of the scores of both students?

b. How many scores are above and below the mean of these scores?

c. Check once more the distribution of scores. Which of the two has a more consistent performance?

d. Which of the two students do you think should be sent to represent school in the competition?

e. Try getting the median of these scores and compare with their mean.

f. Which do you think is the best measure to use asses their performance? Explain.