Median Math Example 3

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Example 3

easy
Find the median of {22,8,15,31,10,18,27}\{22, 8, 15, 31, 10, 18, 27\}.

Solution

  1. 1
    Sort: {8,10,15,18,22,27,31}\{8, 10, 15, 18, 22, 27, 31\}.
  2. 2
    With n=7n = 7, the median is the 4th4^{\text{th}} value: 1818.

Answer

Median=18\text{Median} = 18
Sorting first is essential. The median of an odd-sized data set is always a value that actually appears in the data.

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