What are median of 12 10 19 6 14?

Answer 1

The median is the number that will be in the middle when you put the numbers in to order.

So if we order those numbers we get:

6, 10, 12, 14, 19

There are 5 numbers here so the median will be the 3rd number in our ordered list (you can divide by 2 and round up to the nearest whole number to know which is the middle number when there are an odd number of numbers such as 5; i.e. 5 /2 = 2.5 which rounds up to 3).

The median is 12.

Please note: if there are an even number of numbers (let's say there were 6 numbers instead of 5) then the median will be the average of the middle two numbers.

Example: Let's add the number 20 to our list of numbers.

After ordering you have:

6, 10, 12, 14, 19 , 20.

As there are 6 numbers now (an even number) we have to take the middle two numbers, which are 12 and 14 (You should divide the number of numbers by 2 and use this and this plus 1 to determine which are the middle numbers. e.g. 6 /2 = 3 and 3 + 1 = 4, so the middle numbers will be the 3rd & 4th) and add them together and then divide by 2.

12 + 14 = 26

26/2 = 13

So the median for these 6 numbers is 13.