Question

Alejandra has five hair ribbons measuring 8, 13, 11, 9, and 13 inches long. What is the median length of the ribbons?

Answer 1

The median is defined to be simply the middle number in a data set when all values are arranged in ascending order. So first let us arrange all the values in ascending order:

8, 9, 11, 13, 13

We can see that 11 is the middle number in the data set. Therefore the median is 11.

Answer:

11