Question

What is the median of the following data: 13, 5, 7, 9, 10 ?

Answer 1

Answer:

THE ANSWER IS 9.............

Answer 2

Answer:

The median of the given data is 9.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given the data: 13, 5, 7, 9, 10

When a given set of data is arranged in an order, then the middle value is called the median of the data.

Let the data have n observations.

If n is odd, then the median is $\big(\frac{n+1}{2}\big) ^{th}$ term.

If n is even, then the median is $\frac{(\frac{n}{2}) ^{th}+(\frac{n}{2}+1) ^{th}}{2}$ term.

In the present problem, there are 5 observations.

Arranging the data in increasing order,

5, 7, 9, 10, 13

$\big(\frac{n+1}{2}\big) ^{th}$ term $=\frac{5+1}{2}=3^{rd}$ term

And the third term is 9.

Therefore, the median of the given data is 9.