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


Find the median score of the team.


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12
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3
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C
8.5
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6.5
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Solution

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,

Average=8+92=172=8.5

Hence, the median score of the team is 8.5.

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