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by goyalsau » Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:11 am
girishbtg wrote:plz see this
Student Earned
1st day - 96$
2nd day - 96$
3rd day - 96$
4th day - 96$
5th day - 84 $
6th - 84$
7th- 84$
8th - 84$
9th - 84$
10th 84$

11th- 84$
12th - some amount

Now the median of 20 days is his income Means his income on exact half of 20 terms
We can see it like this there are series of numbers from 1 to 20.
Now we want the median value of 1 to 20. it will be addition of value at 10th place and value at 11th value.
because series is not odd otherwise we could had only one middle value.


10th day + 11th day = (84 +84)/2 = 84$

Median is nothing but a concept that we need to remember that it is the middle value of the series of terms.
Thanks for posting such a question because it made me search what median is and i sure information will be helpful to others as well.
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by pzazz12 » Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:53 pm
Student Earned
1st day - 96$
2nd day - 96$
3rd day - 96$
4th day - 96$
5th day - 84 $
6th - 84$
7th- 84$
8th - 84$
9th - 84$
10th 84$

11th- 84$
12th - some amount

Now the median of 20 days is his income Means his income on exact half of 20 terms
We can see it like this there are series of numbers from 1 to 20.
Now we want the median value of 1 to 20. it will be addition of value at 10th place and value at 11th value.
because series is not odd otherwise we could had only one middle value.


10th day + 11th day = (84 +84)/2 = 84$

Median is nothing but a concept that we need to remember that it is the middle value of the series of terms.
Thanks for posting such a question because it made me search what median is and i sure information will be helpful to others as well.

Thank you........but how can i guess immediately how to solve this type of problems.........

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by ankur.agrawal » Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:18 am
Gr8 explaination goyal.

Gud question .... thx for posting...... This seems to be real gmat stuff.