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Question
A data has 25 observations arranged in a descending order. Which observation represents the median?
Solution
If the number of observations is odd, then the median is `((n+1)/2)`𝑡ℎ observation.
Thus, `((25+1)/2)`=13𝑡ℎ observation represents the median.
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