What is the median of 18 16 32 26 30 37 35 22 9 21 21 17 3 14 37?

Answer 1

The median is always the middle value when the sequence is ordered.

The ordered sequence is:

3,9,14,16,17,18,21,21,22,26,30,32,35,37,37

There are only 15 values in the sequence (odd) therefore the median exists in the sequence (because it is odd) and is the 8th value (halfway)

Median = 21

==EXTRA==

When there is an even number of values the median is the average of the two numbers closest to where the middle value would be

e.g.

1,2,3,4,5, | ,6,7,8,9,10

________^_________

therefore the median is (5+6)/2 = 5.5