Elementary Statistics (12th Edition)

Published by Pearson
ISBN 10: 0321836960
ISBN 13: 978-0-32183-696-0

Chapter 3 - Statistics for Describing, Exploring, and Comparing Data - 3-2 Measures of Center - Basic Skills and Concepts - Page 90: 3

Answer

The term was not used correctly.

Work Step by Step

The term was not used correctly, because median is used for the exact middle data (or the average of the two if there are even data), but here they meant mid range, because the median is not necessarily exactly bet in between the highest and lowest data.
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