Question

Given the following list of data, find the median. 3,18,11,36,23,5,8,15,32,22,16 Give your answer as a number only. For example, if you found the median was 20, you would enter 20.

Answer 1

The median is 16.

Explanation:

To find the median of a set, first we sort the set in an incresing way. So

3,5,8,11,15,16,18,22,23,32,36

The set has 11 elements, so the median will be element at the position (11+1)/2 = 6, that is, the 6th element of the sorted set.

In this case, the median is 16.