Question

Find the median of 3,13,7,5,21,23,23,40,23,14,12,56,23,29

Answer 1

The answer is either 21 or 23

Answer 2

Answer:

The median of the given data will be 22.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given: $3,13,7,5,21,23,23,40,23,14,12,56,23,29$

We have to find the median of the above data.

• As we know, the median is the middle number in a sorted list of numbers.
• So, to find the median, we need to place the numbers in value order and find the middle number.

We are solving in the following way:

We have,

The given data set is$3,13,7,5,21,23,23,40,23,14,12,56,23,29$.

Ordering the data from least to greatest, we get:

$3 , 5 , 7 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 21 , 23, 23 , 23 , 23 , 29 , 40 , 56$

As we can see, we do not have just one middle number but we have a pair of middle numbers, so the median is the average of these two numbers.

$\text { Median }=\frac{21+23}{2}\\\\\text { Median }=\frac{44}{2} \\\\\text { Median }=22$