Question

What is the median of the numbers given in the box below?

• A. -4
• B. 6
• C. 1
• D. 20

Answer 1

The correct option is C 1

6 numbers are given in the box. We first need to organise the data.

The given numbers in ascending order:-
-17, - 11, - 4, 6, 15, 20

Note that here the number of observations is 6, an even number. Both -4 and 6 lie in the middle of the data. Hence, median will be calculated by finding the average of these two numbers.

i.e., Median = $\frac{-4+6}{2}$ = 1