Question

Determine the meadin of the following data: 16,24,14,10,20,14,15,21

Answer 1

To find the median, the data should first be arranged in order from least to greatest.

10,14,14,15,16,20,21,24

The median of a set of data is the middlemost number in the set.

Since there is an even number of items in the data set, we compute the median by taking the mean of the two middlemost numbers which is 15 and 16.

(15+16)/2 = 31/2 = 15.5

Ans: The median is 15.5