Question

the teacher has a small class with only 7 students. the teacher grades their homework and reports scores of: 10, 7, 8, 12, 9, 11, and 13. what is the median?

Answer 1

10

Explanation:

To find the median in a set of data, organize the data from least to greatest.

Here, our data is the homework scores, those being:

10, 7, 8, 12, 9, 11, 13

Let's organize them in ascending order, like so:

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

The next step in finding the median is figuring out which number is in the middle. Since the amount of data we have is an odd number (7), there will be only one number in the middle.

We can find that the number in the middle is 10.

Thus, the median of the scores is 10.