Find the median of the observations 18, 37, 24, 59, 41, 56, 63, 45, 57, 29.
Social Studies · Middle School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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Given the set:
18, 37, 24, 59, 41, 56, 63, 45, 57, 29.
Find the median.
Solution:
In order to find the median, we first need to arrange the set from least to greatest. Then we need to determine what value is in the middle of the data set.
= 18, 37, 24, 59, 41, 56, 63, 45, 57, 29
= 18, 24, 29, 37, 41, 45, 56, 57, 59, 63
It can be seen that there are two middle values 41, and 45, hence in order to determine what really the median is, we first need to add 41 and 45 then divide the sum by 2.
= 41 + 45
= 86
= 86/2
= 43
Final answer:
= 43