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How do you find the median of a set of numbers with 2 middle numbers?
Take the average of the two middle numbers.
How do you find the middle of 2 numbers?
What you are trying to find is the average or mean. You find this by adding all the numbers in a set together and divide by the amount of numbers you added. Example: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3. Find the average (mean). Add all the numbers in the set together: 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 3 = 12 Divide by the amount of numbers you added: You added together 6 numbers: 12 ÷ 6 = 2. Mean of {1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3} = 2.
How would you get the median of 20 numbers if there's 2 middle numbers?
You take the arithmetic mean of the two middle numbers.
What is the median between 500 and 1 million?
To find the median of an even number of values, you need to take the mean of the 2 middle numbers. Since there is only 2 numbers, take the mean to find the median. The median is (500 + 1M)/2 = 500250.
How do you find the median of 6 numbers with 2 of those numbers being the same?
You find the median like normal: 1) list ALL the numbers in order from least to greatest putting any repeated numbers next to each other; 2) if there is an odd number of numbers the median is the middle one - to find which one it is add one to the number of numbers and divide by 2, eg if there are 11 numbers: (11+1)/2 = 6, so it is the 6th number; 3) otherwise there is an even number of numbers and the median is the mean average of the middle two - to find which ones divide the number of numbers by 2 and then find the mean average of that one and the next one, eg if there are 12 numbers 12/2 = 6, so find the mean average of the 6th and 7th numbers. examples: find the median of {1, 5, 2, 4, 6, 2} {1, 5, 2, 4, 6, 2} → {1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6} → 6 numbers, therefore mean of middle two (6/3 = 3 → 3rd and 4th) = (2 + 4)/2 = 3 find the median of {1, 5, 2, 4, 6, 4} {1, 5, 2, 4, 6, 4} → {1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6} → 6 numbers, therefore mean of middle two (6/3 = 3 → 3rd and 4th) = (4 + 4)/2 = 4 find the median of {1, 5, 2, 3, 6, 2} {1, 5, 2, 3, 6, 2} → {1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 6} → 6 numbers, therefore mean of middle two (6/3 = 3 → 3rd and 4th) = (2 + 3)/2 = 2.5 If there is an even number of numbers in the set, the median does not have to be (and usually isn't) one of the numbers in the set.
