Question

Students in Ms. Singh’s class had the following scores on their last quiz. What was the median score of Ms. Singh’s 20 students?

85, 83, 68, 77, 72, 95, 87, 75, 73, 55,
82, 85, 91, 86, 92, 78, 85, 86, 79, 82

Answer 1

Median score = 82.5

Explanation:

First, arrange the given data in an ordered manner. Thus:

55, 68, 72, 73, 75, 77, 78, 79, 82, 82, 83, 85, 85, 85, 86, 86, 87, 91, 92, 95

The median = the average of the 10th and 11th data

Median = (82 + 83) ÷ 2

Median = 165 ÷ 2

Medina = 82.5