Question

To determine the mean number of electoral votes, add all of the votes in the table and divide by .
There are a total of 535 electoral votes. The mean is votes per state.
The median of the electoral votes is .

Answer 1

Answer:

The median is the 268th observation.

Step-by-step explanation:

The mean of a data set is the value representing the entire data set.

The formula to compute the mean is:

$\text{Mean}=\frac{1}{n}\sum\limits^{n}_{i=1}{x_{i}}$

The median of a data set is the middle most value in the data set.

For odd number of observations the median is given by:

$\text{Median}=[\frac{n+1}{2}]^{th}\ \text{observation}$

For even number of observations the median is given by:

$\text{Median}=\frac{[\frac{n}{2}]^{th}\ \text{observation}\ +\ [\frac{n}{2}+1]^{th}\ \text{observation}}{2}$

In this case the mean number of votes per state is:

$\text{Mean}=\frac{\text{Total number of electoral votes}}{\text{Total number of states}}$

There are n = 535 observations, This value is an odd number.

Then the median of the electoral votes is:

$\text{Median}=[\frac{n+1}{2}]^{th}\ \text{observation}$

           $=[\frac{535+1}{2}]^{th}\ \text{observation}\\\\=268^{th}\ \text{observation}$

Thus, the median is the 268th observation.

Answer 2

Answer:

To determine the mean number of electoral votes, add all of the votes in the table and divide by  

✔ 50

.

There are a total of 535 electoral votes. The mean is  

✔ 10.7

votes per state.

The median of the electoral votes is  

✔ 8

.

Step-by-step explanation: