Question

5. Which data set has the lowest median?
A. {1, 6, 15, 7, 15, 18, 14)
B. (11, 15, 16, 8, 12, 14}
C. (1, 10, 8, 29, 14, 17, 3}
D. 18, 20, 13, 14, 12, 9)
The correct answer is C. Please explain why that is correct, thank you.

Answers

GPT 3.5
The correct answer is C because the median is the middle value in a sorted list of numbers. In this case, when the numbers in each data set are sorted and the medians are calculated:

A. Median: 14
B. Median: 13
C. Median: 10
D. Median: 13

Therefore, data set C has the lowest median of 10.