Question

Georgina claims that the median is the best measure of center for this set of data she collected on hair length of her friends (in inches). What is the median hair length?

{10,26,14,12.5,13,11,12.5,13,11,12.5,14.1,11,8,14,12.3,11.4]

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

To find the median, we first need to arrange the data in ascending order:

{8, 10, 11, 11, 11, 11.4, 12.3, 12.5, 12.5, 12.5, 13, 13, 14, 14, 14.1, 26}

Since there are 16 data points, the median will be the average of the 8th and 9th data points:

Median = (12.5 + 12.5) / 2 = 12.5

Therefore, the median hair length in this data set is 12.5 inches.