A store manager kept track of the numbers of newspapers sold each week over a seven week period. The results are shown below
72,10,201,133,284,231,230
Find the median number of newspapers sold
To find the median number of newspapers sold, we need to arrange the numbers in ascending order:
10, 72, 133, 201, 230, 231, 284
There are 7 numbers in total, so the median would be the middle number. Since we have an odd number of numbers, the middle number is the fourth number, which is 201.
Therefore, the median number of newspapers sold over a seven-week period is 201.