Chapter 12.4, Problem 48SR

To determine

To find: the measure of central tendency that best represents the data of the number of cans of soda they drank in a week.

Answer to Problem 48SR

The median of the data is $10$ .

Explanation of Solution

Given information:

The soda company receives the following data:

  $14,7,3,0,10,12,10$

List the values from least to greatest

  $0,3,7,10,10,12,14$

There does not seem to be a big gap in the middle of the data.

So, the following median would best represent the data.

  $\left\{0,3,7,10,10,12,14\right\}$

Median is the middle digit of the ordered data or the mean of the middle two digits.

Hence, the median is 10.