Given the following data set:
[13,13,13,15,15,16,16,17,17]
Let's determine the median.
Step 1: Arrange the data points from smallest to largest.
The set is already arranged in ascending order.
[13,13,13,15,15,16,16,17,17]
Step 2:
a.) If the number of data points is odd, the median is the middle data point in the list.
b.) If the number of data points is even, the median is the average of the two middle data points in the list.
There are 9 data in the set, it is odd. The middle data is the 5th data.
[13,13,13,15,15,16,16,17,17]
The 5th data is 15.
Therefore, the median of the given set of data is 15.