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Hey Gladi, wouldn’t median of group C be 7? (6+8)/2?
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Hey jayantbakshi,

The median of a set with odd number of elements is always the middle element. So median of C will be 8 as it is the middle element.

Also C has two 12s instead of one. Which I forgot to outline in my original answer. So..

C={1,1,4,6,8,9,9,12,12}


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Hey Gladi, wouldn’t median of group C be 7? (6+8)/2?
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Hey jayantbakshi,

The median of a set with odd number of elements is always the middle element. So median of C will be 8 as it is the middle element.

Does that make sense?

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Hey Gladi, thanks. I think the set C mentioned in your post had only 8 items - guess the number 12 was written only once - so I got confused.
Thanks so much for the explanation, cheers man!


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Set A {1, 4, 9, 9, 12} = Median - 9
Set B {1, 6, 8, 12} = Median - 7
Set C {1,1,4,6,8,9,9,12,12} = Median = 8

We get B < C < A

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