Question

The following data points represent the number of slices of pizza that each person at Thorton's birthday party ate. Sort the data from least to greatest. 3 1 37 9 2 4 Find the median number of slices.

Answer 1

We are given the following data set:

$3,1,3,7,9,2,4$

we are asked to find the median of this data set. To do that, we will first arrange the numbers from least to greatest:

$1,2,3,3,4,7,9$

Since we have an odd number of terms the term in the middle is the median, that is:

$\text{Median}=3$