Interesting word problems are included in each section. The median and mode methods however would produce different answers than the mean. It all depends on the data set itself.
In a perfectly symmetrical distribution the mean and the median are the same.
This example has one mode unimodal and the mode is the same as the mean and median. Mean median and mode are together called the measures of central tendency. Step 1 Add up all of the numbers in the set. The mean median and mode are measures of central tendency within a distribution of numerical values.