[Urgent!] Some Help W/ Math?, ...Finding The Median Options

[lilphoenix]

'k.

My friend is like REALLY botherin' me w/ this math problem rite now... and it's buggin' me out... literally.

As I do not know the answer myself, so I am wonderin' if the kind people @ CreateBlog could help!

Why is it important to put the numbers in order? [As when finding the median.]

::edit::
That title isn't really helpin' me out... is it?

Confuses some pplz it does.

The question was that why is it that you have to put the numbers in order from least to greatest or vice versa?

Why must you put in order?

(I know how to find the mean, median, mode, and range. So if you're 'bout to answer among the lines of that... don't answer.)

[Spirited Away]

Median

The median is the number whose value is in the middle of the numbers in a particular set. Take the set: {6, 19, 3, 11, 7}. If we arrange the numbers in order of value, we get:

{3, 6, 7, 11, 19}
When we list the numbers in this order, it becomes clear that the middle number in this group is 7, making 7 the median.

The set we just looked at contained an odd number of items, but in a set with an even number of items it’s impossible to isolate a single number as the median. Let’s add one number to the set from the previous example:

{3, 6, 7, 11, 19}
In this case, we find the median by taking the two most middle numbers and finding their average. The two middle numbers in this set are 7 and 11, so the median of the set is (7+11)/2=9.

Taken from Spark Notes and basically tell you the same thing the other people are saying.... You list them in order because it must be in a particular set.