Question 1203145: Suppose that the distribution of grocery purchases is thought to be symmetric. If the mean purchase is $23.14, what would the median purchase be?
Answer by jekoishun(6)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! In a perfectly symmetric distribution, the mean and the median are the same. This is because the mean is calculated as the sum of all values divided by the number of values, and the median is the middle value when all values are ordered. In a symmetric distribution, these two measures coincide because the distribution is balanced: it has the same amount of values above and below the mean, which is also the median.
Therefore, if the distribution of grocery purchases is symmetric and the mean purchase is $23.14, the median purchase would also be $23.14.
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