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Jon, Leroy, and Simon are having a free-throw shooting contest. Each boy

takes six turns and records the number of free throws he makes out of 10
shots. Which boy's median is greatest?

Jon, Leroy, and Simon are having a free-throw shooting contest. Each boy takes six-example-1
User Caraballo
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Answer:

Leroy

Explanation:

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User Sylver
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Answer:

B

Explanation:

If you arrange a statistics in order from least to greatest, the middle number is the median.

If there is even number of numbers in a list, let it be n numbers, then we take the average of n/2th and n/2 + 1 th terms.

Here, all of them have 6 numbers, so 6/2 = 3 and 4th, we take average of 3rd and 4th number to find the median.

Since they are arrange in order we check each:

Jon = average of 6 and 7, (6+7)/2 = 6.5

Leroy = average of 6 and 8, (6+8)/2 = 7

Simon = average of 5 and 6, (5+6)/2 = 5.5

Leroy's median is the greatest (7).

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