Fifteen students are randomly selected from two different classes. They were asked how many books they read during the summer. Their responses are as follows. Find the median number of books read by each class. Which class has a higher median number of books read? Class 1:0,5,3,6,7,8,10,1,1,4,5,6,4,5,6. Class 2:2,2,4,3,0,0,6,7,10,9,6,5,3,1,2.

Question

Fifteen students are randomly selected from two different classes. They were asked how many books they read during the summer. Their responses are as follows. Find the median number of books read by each class. Which class has a higher median number of books read? Class 1:0,5,3,6,7,8,10,1,1,4,5,6,4,5,6. Class 2:2,2,4,3,0,0,6,7,10,9,6,5,3,1,2.

Answer 1

To find the median number of books read by each class, we first need to order the numbers in each class from least to greatest.

For Class 1: 0, 1, 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8, 10

For Class 2: 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 9, 10

Next, we find the middle value in each set of numbers to determine the median.

For Class 1, there are 15 students so the median is the 8th value, which is 5.

For Class 2, there are also 15 students so the median is also the 8th value, which is 3.

Therefore, Class 1 has a higher median number of books read compared to Class 2.