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What does the term of median mean in math?
The median is the middle value of a list of numbers. In [1,6,34] the median value is 6.
What would your median be if you had 84 and 85 as your numbers?
The median is the middle value or, in your case, where there is an even amount of numbers, the average of the two middle numbers. This means the median of 84 and 85 is the same as the average, which is 84.5 (84 and 85 divided by 2)
What if the data set has a even amount of numbers and the median was between the same numbers?
The median of a set of data is the "middle" value. Whenever there is an even number of values in a data set, you take the middle two numbers, add them together, and divide by two. For cases when the two middle numbers happen to be the same, you still add them up and divide by two. The key point is just that the answer will be the same as both the numbers.
Why would you use median instead of mean?
You would use median instead of mean because the median doesn't find the average, it finds the middle value. Even if its not the middle of the range (the exact middle value between the lowest number and the highest number) it still is near to the middle value. The mean finds the average of all the numbers, like when a teacher average's her students' grades. Median is better to use when finding the middle value, not the average.
What is the median in math?
The middle number (in a sorted list of numbers).To find the Median, place the numbers you are given in value order and find the middle number.Example: find the Median of {13, 23, 11, 16, 15, 10, 26}.Put them in order: {10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 23, 26}The middle number is 15, so the median is 15.(If there are two middle numbers, you average them.
