Question

The approximate land areas of the seven continents are listed in the table below.

Continent Area

(in sq. miles)
Africa 11.7 million
Antarctica 5.4 million
Asia 17.3 million
Australia 3.3 million
Europe 3.8 million
North America 9.4 million
South America 6.9 million

What is the median of the land areas of the seven continents?

Answer 1

What value falls in the middle of all of those values?

Answer 2

(hint: put them all in order and see what the middle value is)

Answer 3

Note that since it's an odd-number of items, there will be an obvious median value. If the number of values was even, then you'd average the two middle values to get a median.

Answer 4

69

Answer 5

Yes, 6.9 million