Question

Here is a stemplot representing the calorie content of one sausage for 17 popular brands of hot dogs. As you can see, some of the hot dogs have about twice as many calories as others, and there is one brand that is definitely the healthiest in terms of low calories.

10 | 7
11 |
12 |
13 | 5 6 8 9
14 | 0 6 7
15 | 3
16 |
17 | 2 3 5 9
18 | 2
19 | 0 1 5

What is the median of this distribution?

Answer 1

there are 17 scores... to find the position of the median

its (17 +1)/2 = 9

so the median is the score in the 9th position

so count 9 scores from the 1st score of 107

and the median is 153

Answer 2

if you do this you may notice there are 8 scores below the median and 8 scores above the median