Practice Computation Of Median (5.3.1) - Measures of Central Tendency

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Question 1.
What is the median of the set 2, 4, 6, 8?
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Sort the numbers and find the middle value.
Question 2.
Calculate the median of 11, 13, 15, 20, 22.
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Identify the middle value directly.
3Question 3.
What is the formula for finding the position of the median?
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Remember, N is the total number of observations.
4Question 4.
If there are 6 numbers in a dataset, how do we find the median?
- Average the 2nd and 3rd numbers
- Take the 3rd number
- Average the 1st and 2nd numbers
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Think about how to find the middle for an even count.
Question 5.
Find the median of the dataset consisting of 15, 22, 34, 41, 55, 60, 70, 84, 90.
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Count to the middle value carefully.
Question 6.
For a dataset containing incomes in a village: 2000, 2500, 3000, 4000, 5000, identify the median and explain your rationale.
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What happens with an even number of items?

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