Question

The shoe sizes of a group of middle school girls are shown. 5.5 6 7 8.5 6.5 6.5 8 7.5 8 5 If a shoe size of 4 is added to the data, how does the median change?

Answer 1

Answer: The median of the shoe sizes is 6.5. If a shoe size of 4 is added to the data, the median will not change because it is based on the middle value in the data set and the addition of a value of 4 will not affect the middle value.

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