for and odd number like 1, 4, 7, 9, and 23 it is 7 because it is the middle number. what i think you mean is what do you do if it is even. so, 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12. you would take the middle two numbers in the correct order(least to greatest) and then you take the average. the average is adding them together and then dividing by the number of numbers, which for the median will always be 2. hope this helps, dont know why you didnt know this before.
Chat with our AI personalities
Place the terms in RANK order. This has been done. Since there are an odd number of terms, select the absolute middle term. In this case '8'. is the MEDIAN.
If you order the numbers from the higher to the lowest, the median is the number separating the lower half of the numbers from the higher half of the numbers in the set. If you have an odd number of elements in the set then the median is in the middle of this descending ordered numbers. If you have an even number of elements then, in order to determine the median, you calculate the mean of the two middle values.
There are 6 numbers, so the median is the mean of the middle two: (7 + 8) ÷ 2 = 7.5
The median is the middle value of a list of numbers. In [1,6,34] the median value is 6.
6 is the median of 10 numbers