Question

What is the difference between mean and median

Answer 1

mean is the AVERAGE of all numbers

Explanation:

because when you add up all the numbers then you divide it by the TOTAL NUMBER of NUMBERS!

and a median is the middle number in a sorted, ascending or descending, list of numbers and can be more descriptive of that data set than the average.

hope this helps

Answer 2

The difference between the mean and median is that the mean is the average number. f.e: 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5 - and if you add all those up, the mean would be 3, or 2.

But the median is the number in the middle Number.

What if you have 2 medians, though?

Well, that’s easy to solve IMO.

F.e: 22, 22, 23, 23, 23, 24, 24, 24, 25, 25

The median is either 23 or 24, right?

Okay. That’s simple. But what exactly do we do?

Let me show you:

So get the sum of 23 and 24, which is 47.

Now divide 47 by 2. And what do we get?

23.5.

Now round that, and you get 24. So 24 is the median!

Hope that helps!