Question

A basketball player made the following number of free throws in 8 successive games: 6, 18, 15, 14, 19, 12, 19, and 15. What is the median number of successful free throws?

Answer 1

15

Explanation:

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To find the median, all you have to do is order the number of terms in ascending order and then count to the middlemost number(s).

Arranging in ascending order:

`6,\:12,\:14,\:15,\:15,\:18,\:19,\:19`

Since this is an even number, our two medians are 15 and 15.

(15 + 15) / 2 = 15.

Thus, the median of successful free throws is
`\boxed{15}`.