Brain Teaser:

A shoplifter in a rare coin shop stole the oldest coin he could find, dated 260BC. If a rare coin is worth $30 for each year before Christ that it was minted, how much could the shoplifter get for his coin?

Answer: Nothing. The coin is fake.

Martha's Statistic Test Scores

100, 100, 99, 98, 96, 95, 92, 90, 89, 73, 70, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 9, 8, 8


• mean - 58.55
• median - 81
• mode - 10
• standard deviation - 41.998

1994 Braves Salaries: The Data Library

4,750,000; 4,000,000; 3,750,000; 3,750,000; 3,250,000; 3,200,000; 3,200,000; 2,916,667; 2,800,000; 1,400,000; 1,225,000; 1,100,000; 800,000; 750,000; 700,000; 575,000; 550,000; 500,000; 245,000; 180,000; 158,000; 150,000; 111,500; 111,500; 111,500; 109,000; 109,000


• mean - 1,500,080
• median - 750,000
• mode - 111,500
• standard deviation - 1,528,796

Pictographs of Wages of Carpenters in 2 Different Countries

• Statement: Carpenters in Country 1 make 1/2 as much as Carpenters in Country 2.
• The first one is inaccurate and the second one is correct.
• First Picture doubled the height of the smaller money sack, but then the artist had to make the width larger for the money sacks to be proportional.
• According to the first picture 4 of the smaller money sacks can fit into the larger one. Therefore Carpenters in Country 1 make 1/4 as much as carpenters in Country 2?




Huff, Darrell. How To Lie With Statistics. New York, Norton: 1954.