Question

In a basket there are 10 tomatoes. The weight of each of these tomatoes in grams is as follows 60, 70, 90, 95, 50, 65, 70, 80, 85, 95. Find the median of the weights of tomatoes.

Answer 1

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$\textbf{What is median ?}$
$\textbf{Median}$ is the middle value.

$\textbf{How to calculate median}$ ?
$\textbf{Step 1 -}$First sort the given numbers in an ascending order.

$\textbf{Step 2 -}$ - Calculate the $\textbf{total number of items.}$

$\textbf{Step 3 -}$ If total number of item is $\textbf{odd,}$ then median is exactly the middle number. If total number of item is $\textbf{even,}$ then median is the average of two central values.

$\textbf{Lets gat back to the question,}$

$\textbf{Weight of tomatoes in grams -}$

60, 70, 90, 95, 50, 65, 70, 80, 85, 95

Lets sort the weights in ascending order,

50, 60, 65, 70, 70, 80, 85, 90, 95, 95

$\textbf{Total number of item is 10,}$which is $\textbf{even number.}$

So the median will be the $\textbf{average of two central numbers}$.

Two central number in the given data are,
10/2 = 5th number = 70
10/2 + 1 = 6th number = 80

$\textbf{Median = (70+80)/2}$

=> Median = 75 gram

$\textbf{Median of weights of tomatoes = 75grams.}$

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