Thinking Mathematically (6th Edition)

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Chapter 12 - Statistics - 12.2 Measures of Central Tendency - Exercise Set 12.2 - Page 791: 23

Answer

$6$

Work Step by Step

The median of $n$ numbers is the middle number of the numbers when they are in order (and the mean of the middle $2$ numbers if $n$ is even). Here we have $46$ items (obtained by summing the numbers in the right column), thus the mean will be the mean of the $23$rd and the $24$th, which according to the table is: $(6+6)/2=6$
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