A booklet has 12 pages with the following numbers of words: 271, 354, 296, 301, 333, 326, 285, 298, 327, 316, 287 and 314 what is the median number of words per page?
Put them in numerical order: 271, 285, 287, 296, 298, 301, 314, 316, 326, 327, 333, 354 and then cross out one number on both sides until you get to the middle number or numbers but in this case you will only have one which is 301.