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Algebra.Com's Answer #465053 by Edwin McCravy(20060) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "5200 2800 1150 900 850 850 750\r\n" );
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document.write( "The median of a highway is in the middle of the highway.\r\n" );
document.write( "The median of a set of numbers is the one in the middle of the set of numbers,\r\n" );
document.write( "when they are arranged from largest to smallest or smallest to largest.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Those are arranged largest to smallest, so the middle one is 900.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the median is 900.\r\n" );
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document.write( "When there are an even number of numbers, you don't have a middle one, \r\n" );
document.write( "but you have a middle two, and so you average them.\r\n" );
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document.write( "If you have  109  97  67  45  26  15, and want to find the median,\r\n" );
document.write( "You take the middle two, which are 67 and 45, so you average them:\r\n" );
document.write( " = 56\r\n" );
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