Answer to Question #150878 in Statistics and Probability for Tianna

Question

Joe has fast food 12 times in January 10 times in February 8th times in March for X in April two times in may find the Median number of how many times of getting fast food

Answer 1

Fast food frequency in following months are..

January: 12X

February:10X

March:8X

April: X

May: 2X

Writing in ascending order...

X,2X, 8X, 10X,12X

Since set has odd number of elements hence the middle term represents the median of the set which is 8X. Hence median frequency of having fast food is 8X.