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Example Question #38 : How To Find Median
What's if median is ?
Let's arrange in increasing order. Remember with negative numbers, the bigger the value, the smaller it is. So we have . The reason it's arranged like this is because we have an odd number set and the median is which we will let to be.
Example Question #39 : How To Find Median
What is the median of the first five prime numbers?
Prime numbers are numbers with factors of one and itself. is not a prime number so we start with . The next four numbers are . The middle number is the third one in the set which is and our answer.
Example Question #32 : How To Find Median
Find the median of the numbers .
The median is the number in the middle when listing the set in order.
In order, the numbers are:
so 3 is the median.
Example Question #41 : How To Find Median
What's the median?
Median is the middle number in an increasing set. In the set, the numbers are arranged in increasing order.
There are five numbers, so the middle is the third number which is .
Example Question #42 : How To Find Median
Whats the median?
Median is the middle number in an increasing set. In the set, the numbers are arranged in increasing order.
There are seven numbers, so the middle is the fourth number which is .
Example Question #43 : How To Find Median
What's the median?
Median is the middle number in an increasing set. In the set, the numbers are arranged in increasing order.
There are six numbers, so the middle is the third and the fourth number.
In this case, we take the average of the two numbers and we get
.
Example Question #44 : How To Find Median
What's the median?
Median is the middle number in an increasing set. In the set, the numbers are arranged in increasing order.
There are six numbers, so the middle is the third and the fourth number.
In this case, we take the average of the two numbers and we get
.
Example Question #1673 : Algebra 1
What's the median?
Median is the middle number in an increasing set. In the set, the numbers are not arranged in increasing order.
The order is .
There are six numbers, so the middle is the third and the fourth number.
In this case, we take the average of the two numbers and we get
.
Example Question #1674 : Algebra 1
What's the median?
Median is the middle number in an increasing set. In the set, the numbers are not arranged in increasing order.
The order is .
Remember when ordering negative number, the bigger the negative, the smaller the number it is.
There are six numbers, so the middle is the third and the fourth number.
In this case, we take the average of the two numbers and we get
.
Example Question #245 : Statistics And Probability
What's if the median is ?
Let's arrange this in increasing order. We have . Since we want a median of , we can insert between . The reason is if we put between any others, the maximum value of will either be less than on the left or greater than on the right. We need to average those two values since we have an even amount of numbers in the set. So the middle numbers in the set is . Let's take the average and set it equal .
Cross multiply.
Subtract both sides by .