SOLUTION: In a class of 16 students, each student has a different test score. The median test score is 84. What is the greatest number of students who scored higher than 84?

Question 55845: In a class of 16 students, each student has a different test score. The median test score is 84. What is the greatest number of students who scored higher than 84?
I did: x/16 = 84
x= 1344 represents total combined scores of all
students
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In a class of 16 students, each student has a different test score. The median test score is 84. What is the greatest number of students who scored higher than 84?
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The median is the score BELOW WHICH 50% of the scores lie.
So there are 8 scores less than 84
Then there is a score of 84
So there are 16-8-1=7 scores above 84.
Cheers,
Stan H.

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