Question

What is the median of the data

represented in the box plot below?
25
35
45
55

Answer 1

40

Explanation:

-To find the median with an odd set of numbers

• put the numbers in chronological order
• find the number in the middle and that is your answer

-To find the median with a even set of numbers

• put the numbers in chronological order
• find the average of two numbers in the middle (to do so:

1. add the 2 numbers in the middle
2. divide that number by 2

• and that's your answer