Question

In Exercises 6 and 7, use the given measure to find the missing value in each data set.

6. The mean of the ages of 5 brothers is 13 years.
12, 16,__, 14, 8 7.

7. The median number of students in each music class is 19 people.
16,___, 24, 17, 20, 21 8.

Write a data set where both the mean and the median describe the data equally well. Explain your reasoning. _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________


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Answer 1

For number 7 it would be 18 because if you go down 4 it’ll be 14