SAT Math : Median
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Example Question #92 : Statistics
Find the median of the following set:
Reorder all the numbers from smallest to largest.
Since there are four numbers in this set, we will average the second and third number in the set to find the median.
The median is 
Example Question #22 : Median
The following represent speeds of passing cars collected by a surveillance camera:
What is the median of the speeds?
The median of a set of numbers is the number that falls in the middle of the set.
If we reorder the numbers from least to greatest, we get:
The number that falls in the middle of this set is the fourth number, which is 
Example Question #121 : Data Analysis
Find the median of the following set of numbers:
1,5,14,17,22,23,23
To solve, simply find the middle number. Since the numbers are already ordered from smallest to largest, we can easily do this. 7 numbers means the 4th one from either end will be the middle. Thus, our answer is 17.
Example Question #24 : Median
A set of six numbers is listed below.
The median is the number that falls in the middle of a set of numbers when they are placed in order from least to greatest.
With an odd number of numbers in this set, you always have one of the values in the set as your median (as opposed to the average of the two middle values when you have an even number of numbers in a set). Therefore, because all of the numbers in this set are integers, you cannot have 24.5 as the median
Example Question #7 : How To Find Median
The heights of the members of a basketball team are 
The mean is the sum of the data values divided by the number of values or as a formula we have:
Where:
In order to find the median, the data must first be ordered:
Since the number of values is even, the median is the mean of the two middle values. So we get:
Example Question #3051 : Sat Mathematics
The table below shows the number of college graduates per 2 months
Which 2 month period had the most college graduates?
In order to answer this question, we need to add each column up and see what column is the largest.
It looks like that the 
Example Question #121 : Data Analysis
The numbers 7, 3, 20, 14, and x add up to 50. Find the median of the numbers.
We know that the median is the middle number in a group of numbers. Therefore, the median of five numbers will be the 3rd largest number. Since one of the numbers is unknown, we need to solve for it.
We can set up the equation,
After we solve for x, we learn that,
Therefore our five numbers, in order, are 3, 6, 7, 14, and 20. The median number, which is the middle number and the 3rd largest in a group of 5 numbers, is 7.
Example Question #61 : Data Analysis
The Brenner cousins' heights, in inches, are as follows:
Jeremy: 64
Vanessa: 69
Tracie: 60
Samuel: 70
Raymond: 74
Justin: 72
Patty: 55
Lauren: 52
Keith: 58
What is the median height of the cousins?
74
60
64
58
52
64
To find the median, one must arrange all the heights from the lowest to the highest value and then pick the middle value.
All values: 64 69 60 70 74 72 55 52 58
In order from lowest: 52 55 58 60 64 69 70 72 74
Median: 64
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