Algebra 1 : How to find median
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Example Question #1 : How To Find Median
What is the median of the following numbers:
0, 1, one-fourth, twenty five percent, 
twenty five percent
0, 1, one fourth, twenty five percent, 
First we will list the numbers from least to greatest:
0, one fourth, twenty five percent, 
The median is the middle number, or 
Example Question #1 : How To Find Median
Example Question #1 : How To Find Median
Consider the following set of numbers: 2,5,9,15,21,27,29,32,40.
Which of the following is the median for these numbers?
The median, by definition, is the middle number in a set of numbers which, in this case, is 21. The mean is the average of the set of numbers, which is 20 for this set.
Example Question #1 : How To Find Median
What is the median of the following set, in terms of 
It cannot be determined without knowing the value of 
Regardless of the value of 
Example Question #2 : How To Find Median
There are 7 people waiting in line for tacos at the food court. 4 of them are your classmates, aged 14, 16, 17, and 16. If all 7 people were to line up by age, what is the youngest that the person in the middle could be?
Not enough information to answer the question
The problem is asking for the median of the ages. The answer is easiest to see if you look at the extreme case of all the unkown people being younger than the known people. If the 3 unknown people were 10 years old, the line would be 10, 10, 10, 14, 16, 16, 17, making 14 the median. With 4 people older than 14, there is no way to have a median below 14.
Example Question #3 : How To Find Median
What is the median of all of the natural numbers from 1 to 99?
The median of 99 natural numbers is the number that falls in the 
Example Question #4 : Median
Determine the median, from the set of numbers:
First put your set in numerical order, from smallest to largest
Median refers to the number in the middle, so if you count in from both sides the middle number of the set is
Example Question #3 : How To Find Median
A short quiz with 5 questions is given to a class of 30 students. 7 students answered 5 questions correctly, 12 students answered 4 questions correctly, 9 students answered 3 questions correctly, and 2 students answered 2 questions correctly.
What is the median number of questions answered correctly by the students of this class?
The median score will be located in the middle of the class's scores when arranged from lowest to highest or highest to lowest. Because there are 30 students in the class, the median score is the average of the 15th and 16th score. In this case, the 15th and 16th highest score is 4, which means that its median must be 4.
Example Question #4 : How To Find Median
For one algebra class, the scores on last week's exam were 93, 62, 79, 85, 58, and 85. Which statement about this set of values is false?
The median of this set is 
The mode of this set is 
The range of this set is 
The mean of this set is 
The range of this set is
The simplest of these statistical measurements is the mode, which refers to the most common value in the set. Here, all of the values are present once except for 85, which is present twice, making it our mode. The corresponding answer choice is true and is not our solution.
Next, we find the mean by adding the values and dividing by 6. The mean is indeed 77.
Let's look at the median. The two middle values of the set are 85 and 79, so the median falls directly between them, at 82.
Finally, the range is the difference between the highest value and the lowest. 
Example Question #5 : Median
Find the median of the following set of numbers: 3, 5, 18, 6, 3.
The median of a set of numbers is the number that falls in the middle when the numbers are arranged from smallest to largest: 3, 3, 5, 6, 18. The number that falls exactly in the middle of this set is 5, which is the median.
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