Question

The score of a team in a football tournament of $6$ matches is shown below,


Find the median score of the team.

• A. $12$
• B. $3$
• C. $8.5$
• D. $6.5$

Answer 1

The correct option is C $8.5$

If the set consists of an even number of terms, then the median is obtained by following two steps as:

Step I: Arrange the given set in ascending order.

Step II: Find the average of the middle two terms.

The given data set consists of $6$ values, thus the median is calculated as,

Step I: The ascending order of the given data is as follows:


Step II: The average of the highlighted middle numbers is calculated as follows,

$\begin{array}{cc}\text{Average}& =\frac{8+9}{2}\\ & =\frac{17}{2}\\ & =8.5\end{array}$

Hence, the median score of the team is $8.5$.