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Question
A student got the following marks in 9 questions of a question paper.
3, 5, 7, 3, 8, 0, 1, 4 and 6.
Find the median of these marks.
Solution
Arranging the given data in descending order:
8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 3, 1, 0
The middle term is 4 which is the 5th term.
Median = 4
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