That's the graph. Now we'll shade the area under it: Now we find the area between the graph and the x-axis, take half of it and find the value of x which divides the entire area into two parts. First we find the area under the curved (parabola) part The right part of the graph is just a rectangle with base 1 and height , so its area is just . The entire shaded area is So we need to find the value of x such that half the area is left of it and the other half , is on the right of it. The area under the parabola is so that leaves the we must take of the rectangle. To get the base of a rectangle with area that has height , we divide the area by the height and get . So the median is on a unit past 1, or . So the median is . To indicate the median, we can draw a green vertical line through the graph at : Edwin