alleryStart learning →For an odd number of ordered values, the median is:
AThe middle value
BThe first value
CThe final value
DThe average value
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. The middle value
1. The median splits an ordered data set into two equal halves.
2. With an odd count there is one value exactly in the middle.
3. If n is an odd number, the median is the middle value of the ordered data, ordered smallest to largest.
4. With an even count you average the two middle values instead.
_Source: OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 'Descriptive Statistics', sections 2.1-2.7_
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