1993 AJHSME Problems/Problem 11
Problem
Consider this histogram of the scores for students taking a test:
The median is in the interval labeled
Solution
Since students took the test, the median is the score of the
student. The five rightmost intervals include
students, so the
one must lie in the next interval, which is
.
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