Question

The median of the distribution 2,3,4,7,5,1,6 is

Answer 1

Answer:

1. 7 because 2,3,4,7,5,1,6 is in middle

Answer 2

Given:

A data

2, 3, 4, 7, 5, 1, 6

To find:

The median of given data.

Solution:

The median of given data is 4.

To answer this question, we will follow the following steps:

As given, we have a data

2, 3, 4, 7, 5, 1, 6

To find the median, we will arrange the data in ascending order.

So, we have,

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Here,

Total number of observations = 7

As we know if there is an odd number (n) of observations in a data, then its median is obtained by:

$( \frac{n + 1}{2} )th \: observation$

So,

The median of given data

$= \frac{7 + 1}{2} = 4th \: observation$

Now,

4th observation is 4.

Hence, the median of given data is 4.