2016 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 6
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The following bar graph represents the length (in letters) of the names of 19 people. What is the median length of these names?
Solution
We first notice that the median name will be the 
th name. We subtract all the 
letter names from the list to see that the rd name in the new table is the desired length. Since there are names that are 
letters long, the median name length is 
.
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