document.write( "Question 53245: Can someone help me solve this problem?\r
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Can someone help me solve this problem?\r\n" );
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document.write( "  I need to find the median of:\r\n" );
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document.write( "  22, 15, 21, 37, 27\r\n" );
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document.write( "  Thank you!\r\n" );
document.write( "  Ashley\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"Median\" means \"middle\".  So\r\n" );
document.write( "arrange the numbers in order\r\n" );
document.write( "either from smallest to \r\n" );
document.write( "largest or largest to\r\n" );
document.write( "smallest.\r\n" );
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document.write( "If we arrange them in order\r\n" );
document.write( "smallest to largest, we get:\r\n" );
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document.write( "15, 21, 22, 27, 37\r\n" );
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document.write( "The number right in the middle\r\n" );
document.write( "is 22.  So that's the median.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It's straightforward as to\r\n" );
document.write( "what the median or middle number \r\n" );
document.write( "is when there is an odd number \r\n" );
document.write( "of numbers, like in your\r\n" );
document.write( "problem above. However if there\r\n" );
document.write( "happen to be an even number of \r\n" );
document.write( "numbers, like this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "93, 42, 13, 84, 15, 25\r\n" );
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document.write( "we arrange them in order, \r\n" );
document.write( "smallest to largest, \r\n" );
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document.write( "13, 15, 25, 42, 84, 93\r\n" );
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document.write( "But notice there is no ONE\r\n" );
document.write( "middle number!  However,\r\n" );
document.write( "there are TWO numbers\r\n" );
document.write( "in the middle, the 25\r\n" );
document.write( "and the 42.  So when\r\n" );
document.write( "there is an even number\r\n" );
document.write( "of numbers, you must\r\n" );
document.write( "find the AVERAGE of the\r\n" );
document.write( "TWO numbers in the middle\r\n" );
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document.write( "Add them: 25 + 42 = 67,\r\n" );
document.write( "then divide by 2, getting\r\n" );
document.write( "33.5.  So the median is\r\n" );
document.write( "this case is 33.5.\r\n" );
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document.write( "I thought I'd better\r\n" );
document.write( "give you and example of\r\n" );
document.write( "a situation when there\r\n" );
document.write( "is an EVEN number of\r\n" );
document.write( "numbers so you'd know \r\n" );
document.write( "what to do in that case, \r\n" );
document.write( "too.\r\n" );
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