Question

A selection of staff wages is collected and shown below. £254,£254,£310,£276,£116,£90, £312,£180,£180,£536,£350,£243,£221,£165,£239,£700.What is the median of the staff wages?

Answer 1

List them all in least to greatest order.

90, 116, 165, 180, 180, 221, 239, 243, 254, 254, 276, 310, 312, 350, 536, 700

Then from each side start to cross out one.

116, 165, 180, 180, 221, 239, 243, 254, 254, 276, 310, 312, 350, 536

then it will be

165, 180, 180, 221, 239, 243, 254, 254, 276, 310, 312, 350

Keep going untill you end up with

243 and 254

since you end up with 2 numbers you need to add them up and divide by 2

243+254=497

then divide by 2

248.5 is you median

you can also list the numbers between 243 . and 254

243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254

then cross out again to end up with

248 and 249

the middle of that is 248.5

Hope this works and I didn't confuse you even more!