Question

Billy ran the 40 meter dash nine times. His times are below.

{5.6 s, 5 s, 6 s, 5.4 s, 5 s, 5.2 s, 4.8 s, 6.3 s, 5.8 s}
What is Billy's median time?

5.4 s
4.5 s
6 s
4.8 s

Answer 1

@freckles @kate7600

Answer 2

what is your best guess?

Answer 3

4.5

Answer 4

well before we take any guesses, we need to organize the numbers from least to greatest so we can find the median. so 4.8 - 5 - 5 - 5.2 - 5.6 - 5.8 - 6 and 6.3. Then we find the centermost number in the data set. What is the center most number of that set??