RangeNumbers to 50
Name: Date:
Find the range of each set of numbers.
1
Range11, 38, 45, 11, 20
2
Range7, 28, 47, 1, 7
3
Range45, 45, 30, 24, 11
4
Range4, 49, 32, 49, 46
5
Range20, 23, 46, 6, 20
6
Range23, 37, 25, 15, 25
Range of a data set worksheets
The range measures how spread out a set is: the largest value minus the smallest. These free printable worksheets practice that single subtraction — the simplest measure of spread — with an answer key.
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Range of a data set
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
Range is a fact about spread, not about the center, and pairing it with the mean is what makes both mean something: two sets can share a mean of 50 while one runs from 48 to 52 and the other from 5 to 95. The range is what tells those two apart, and it needs no ordering — only spotting the biggest and smallest numbers in the row.
Why this sheet works
Because it depends on the two extremes and nothing in between, a single unusual value stretches the range on its own. That is worth noticing rather than hiding: it is exactly why the interquartile range exists, and why a child meets the plain range first. Every answer here is a whole number, the difference of two whole numbers.
How this one works
One question from this sheet, worked through a step at a time.
Range of 11, 38, 45, 11, 20
1138451120
1138451120
45−11=34
- The range is not an average at all — it is how far it is from the smallest to the biggest.
- The smallest is 11 and the biggest is 45, so take one from the other: 45 − 11 = 34.