Question

The daily high temperatures for one week in a city are: Seventy-eight degrees, eighty-one degrees, eighty degrees, seventy-nine degrees, eighty-two degrees, eighty-two degrees, seventy-nine degrees.. If each day the temperature had been 5º warmer, what would be the new median temperature for the week?

Eighty-four degrees

Eighty-five degrees

Eighty-six degrees

Eighty-seven degrees

Answer 1

Arrange the temperatures in ascending order from 78 to 82.

Then, add five to each temperature giving a list of 83, 84, 84, 85, 86 ,87, 87.

Simply put the median would be the number in the middle, which in this case would be 85.

Hence, the new median temperature is 85 degrees.