Question

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Here is a list of numbers:
3.8, 9.8, 10, 0.7, 0.3, 4.1,7.6,2.9,1.1,9.9
State the median.

Answer 1

3.95

Explanation:

Order the numbers from least to greatest:

0.3, 0.7, 1.1, 2.9, 3.8, 4.1, 7.6, 9.8, 9.9, 10

Find the numbers in the middle:

3.8, 4.1

Find the mean of these two numbers:

(3.8+4.1)/2

3.95

Answer 2

Your median is 4.1.

Explanation:

What is the median

The median is a measure of central tendency. It represents the value for which 50% of observations a lower and 50% are higher. Put simply, it is the value at the center of the sorted observations.

Median formulas

This calculator uses two different formulas for calculating the median, depending on whether the number of observations is odd, or it is even when the number of observations is odd the formula.