Question

Here is a list of numbers.

32 29 30 37 34
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) She did not arrange them from the smallest number to the biggest number

b) 32

Explanation:

29 30 31 32 33 34 37

middle is 32

Answer 2

Awnser:

a) Tanya didn’t order them from the smallest number to the biggest number

b) 32.5 i’m not sure if that can be cause it isn’t a whole number i haven’t done mean median mode and rang in a long time sorry

EXPLAINATION:

order your numbers from least to greatest and then start crossing them off from each end if there are two numbers in the middle then add them up and divide them by two in this case we added 32 and 33 it was 65 then I divided 65 by 2 it was 32.5