Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions 10th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 0-49580-891-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-49580-891-6

Chapter 3 - Exploring Data: Central Tendency - Problems - Page 46: 3.1

Answer

a: 5 b: 12.5 c: 9.5

Work Step by Step

Arranging the sets of scores from lowest to highest: a. 2,3, 5,9, 15 Middle number is 5, so the median is 5 b. 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, 20, The middle numbers are 12 and 13 Median = (12+13)/2=12.5 c. 8, 8,8,11, 11, 11 The middle numbers are 8 and 11 Median = (8+11)/2=9.5
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