Question

Here is a list of numbers.

32 29 30 37 34 33 31
Tanya thinks that to work out the median, she simply needs to find
the middle number. So she says that “37" is the median for this list of numbers.
Tanya's answer is not correct.
a) Describe what is wrong with her method.
b) Work out the median of the numbers in the list.

Answer 1

a). To find the median from a set of numbers, you need to arrange them from ascending order (smallest to biggest), and then you need to find the number in the middle

b). 32

Explanation:

b). Smallest to biggest

29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37

From the set of numbers given, we can clearly see that 32 is in the middle.