Question

The following is a listing of the amount of sugar in six popular snacks found on a high school campus:

34g 34g 42g 50g 52g 58g
What is the median?

Answer 1

The answer would be 46 g

Answer 2

The median is 46 g

Explanation:

The median of a data set is the middle value. Since there are six snacks, which is an even number, you can't pick out a single middle value. Instead, to get the middle value you have to add the middle 2 numbers together and then divide them by 2 for the median.