JAMB 1983 · UME · Q17
The scores of a set of final-year students in a paper are 41, 29, 55, 21, 47, 70, 70, 40, 43, 56, 73, 23, 50, 50. Find the median of the scores.
Worked solution (try it first)
- Put the 14 scores in order: 21, 23, 29, 40, 41, 43, 47, 50, 50, 55, 56, 70, 70, 73.
- With an even number of scores, the median is halfway between the 7th and 8th: 47 and 50.
- So the median is , option B.