Question

Define mean and median for a set of data

Answer 1

To calculate mean:

• add up all the numbers,

• then divide by how many numbers there are.

Example:

Data: 5, 6, 10, 1

Add these all together, which is 22, then divide by 4 (because that is how many numbers there are), so:

the mean is 5.5

To calculate median:

Arrange your numbers in order.

Cross off numbers until you get to the middle.

If there is an even number of data, then find the two in the middle and find the middle of that.

Example:

Data: 5, 6, 10, 1

Arrange: 1, 5, 6, 10

So, the middle 2 are 5 and 6. In between these would be 5.5, so that is the median.

If the data was: 1, 5, 6, 8, 10,

then the median would be 6.

Answer 2

The mean is the average number of a data set gotten by adding all the numbers then dividing by two.

the median is the middle number in a sorted set of data,either sorted in ascending order or descending order.

I hope this helps