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Three students forgot to report their reading homework. When their information is added to the data, the median number of chapters read increases by 0.5 chapters. What is the smallest whole number of chapters that each student must have read?​

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To increase the median by 0.5 chapters, each student must have read at least 0.5 chapters more than the current median. Since the median is the middle value, this means the smallest whole number of chapters each student must have read is 1.
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