Question

The data set below provides the number of hours that a sample of 8 college students spent playingvideo games.7, 11, 19, 14, 16, 4, 8, 10Find the median of the data set.

Answer 1

Line them up in order from least to greatest, so 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 19.

Then cross off the lowest and highest until you get to the middle.

in this case it’s 10 and 11, so the median would be 10.5.

Answer 2

`Md=10.5`

1) Considering this data set, we need to rewrite them orderly:

4,7,8,10, 11, 14, 16, 19

2) Note that there are 8 data points. So the Median can be found this way:

`Md=(4th+5th)/(2)=(10+11)/(2)=10.5`