A child says that the median of 3 14 18 20 5 is 18 What doesnt the child understand about finding th...

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A child says that the median of 3 14 18 20 5 is 18 What doesnt the child understand about finding the median

Accepted Answer

Since the child says that the median of 3, 14, 18, 20, 5 is 18, it is clear that the child doesn’t understand the fact that the given data should be arranged in ascending or descending order before finding the middle term, i.e., median.

Once the child is familiar with the concept,

He/she will understand that,

Arranging the given data in ascending order, we get,

3, 5, 14, 18, 20

And hence,

The median = 14

NCERT Exemplar Solutions Class 9 Mathematics Solutions for Statistics and Probability - Exercise 14.2 in Chapter 14 - Statistics and Probability