Question

Here is a list of ages (years) of children in a room: 5, 8, 5, 6, 8, 3, 6 State the median.

Answer 1

6

Explanation:

First rearrange them in an ascending order as seen below.

3, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 8

Then cancel the number from the left until the right

3, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 8

5, 5, 6, 6, 8

5, 6, 6

6

Which means 6 is the median which is just the middlemost number

In another set of numbers if the middle number are two, just add the two number and divide by 2.

Answer 2

6

Explanation:

The median of a list of numbers is the number found in the "middle" of all the numbers. What this means is that it has the same amount of numbers larger and smaller than it in the list. To find the median, we first have to organize the list from least to greatest. Doing this, we get 3, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 8.

Now that we have the list, we can find the "middle number" by taking off numbers the highest number then the lowest number. Doing this we get

3, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 8

5, 5, 6, 6, 8

5, 6, 6

6

This means our median is 6.