How do you find the median if there is an equal amount of numbers?

Answer 1

The rules change a bit different...

See after you set the whole group of numbers in order find the two numbers that are in the middle for example:

5,9,10,12,15,17

In this group we see that there is nothing between 10 and 12. :(

So what we do is this...

We know already that 10 and 12 are the middle numbers right? Ok! :)

So now we need to find the number thats between them so we add both numbers:

10+12=22

and as you can see we get the number 22

Now we get the number 22 and divide by 2 like this:

22/2=11

and we get the number 11

So we add the number 11 to the group in middle of 10 and 12 and we get this:

5,9,10,<<11>>12,15,17

So your median is the number 11.

Now we know that the number 11 was not in the group but remember half the numbers in the list are less and half of the numbers in the list are greater..