Question

A climatologist wants to determine the thickness of a glacier with a surface area of about 2 km2. He selected 12 locations at random on the glacier and then measured the thickness of the glacier, in meters, at each location.

29, 41, 38, 36, 29, 34, 44, 46, 43, 35, 40, 47

What is the estimated median thickness of the entire glacier?
39?

Answer 1

@AloneS

Answer 2

@rebeccaxhawaii

Answer 3

Put it in least to greatest order.

Answer 4

29, 29, 34, 35, 36, 38,40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47

Answer 5

@rebeccaxhawaii

Answer 6

What are the middle numbers?

Answer 7

38 &40

Answer 8

Then yes 39 is correct!

Answer 9

hmmm, okay! but :/ why 38 & not 40?

Answer 10

@rebeccaxhawaii

Answer 11

you can only have one number for median therefore its 40+38/2

Answer 12

40+38=78
78÷2=39
39 is the median?

Answer 13

@rebeccaxhawaii

Answer 14

mhm