Question

David recorded the number of worms found in a square metre of earth over a period of six
days. He had put his data in order when a large raindrop made the middle two values on
his paper impossible to read. The values were 8, 10, *, *, 17, 23. The mean of the data was
14, and the median was 13. Find the two missing value

Answer 1

Answer:

the values should be

+12 and -12

hence we can only consider here positive values