Median:

 The value which divides the data

into two equal parts after
arranging it in ascending or
descending order
Problems:
 Calculate the Median of the following data
that relates to the service time(in minutes)
per customer for 7 customers at a railway
reservation counter: 3.5,4.5,3,3.8.5.0,5.5,4
 Calculate the median of the following data
that relates to the no. of patients examined
per hour in the outpatient ward in a
hospital:
10,12,15,20,13,24,17,18.
A survey was conducted to determine the
age(in years) of 120 automobiles. The result
of such a survey is as follows:
age of auto:0-4 4-8 8-12 12-16 16-20
No. of autos : 13 29 48 22 8
What is the median age for the autos?
 In a factory employing 3000 persons, 5%
earn less than Rs.150 per day, 580 earn
from Rs.151 to Rs.200 per day,30% earn
from Rs.201 to Rs.250 per day,500 earn
from Rs.251 to Rs.300 per day,20% earn
Rs.401 to Rs.350 per day, and the rest
earn Rs.351 or more per day. What is the
median wage?
Weekly wages no. of workers weekly wages no. of worker

Below 375 69 600-675 58

375-450 167 675-750 24

450-525 207 700-825 10

obtain the limits of weekly wages
525-600 65 of central 50% of the workers
 The following distribution gives the
pattern of overtime work per week done
by 100 employees of a company.
Calculate median,first quartile and
seventh decile.
Overtime hrs: 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35
35-40
No. of
Employees: 11 20 35 20 8 6
 On a university campus 200 teachers are asked
to express their views on how they feel about
the performance of their Unions president. The
views are classified into he following
categories:
 Disapprove strongly=94
 Disapprove=52
 Approve=43
 Approve strongly=11
 What is the median view?
 The following are the profit figures earned by
50 companies in the country:
Profit in lakhs no. of companies
10 or less 4
20 or less 10
30 or less 30
40 or less 40
50 or less 47
60 or less 50
 The length of time taken by each of 18
workers to complete a specific job was
observed to be the following:
Time(in min):5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29
No. of workers:3 8 4 2 1
(a)calculate the median time
(b)calculate Q1 and Q3
Mode:
 The Mode is that value of an
observation which occurs most
frequently in the data set, that
is,the point (or class mark) with
the highest frequency.