find the median of 2,2,26,14,49,42,39. If necessary, round to one decimal place.

A) 14
B)25.4
C)39
D)26

I have done the math for this calculation by adding the numbers and then divided by 7 and got 24.85714286 by rounding I would have 24.9. Which isn't an option. So what do I need to do? Did I do it correctly?

In math, knowing the definition of the terms is key to solving the problem.

What you have attempted to find is the mean (or average), not the median.

Here the key term is "median", defined as follows:
"To find the Median, place the numbers you are given in value order and find the middle number. Example: find the Median of {13, 23, 11, 16, 15, 10, 26}. The middle number is 15, so the median is 15. (If there are two middle numbers, you average them.)"
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Ok thank you

So 2,2,14,26,39,42,49 that means 26 is the median

Exactly, well done! :)

To find the median of a set of numbers, you need to arrange the numbers in ascending or descending order. Once you have the numbers in order, you can find the middle value or the average of the two middle values if there is an even number of values.

In this case, you have the numbers 2, 2, 26, 14, 49, 42, and 39.

If you arrange them in ascending order, you get: 2, 2, 14, 26, 39, 42, 49.

Now we can see that there are 7 numbers in total, so the middle value will be the 4th number. In this case, the 4th number is 26.

The correct answer would then be D) 26.

It seems like you made a mistake in your calculation by finding the average instead of finding the middle value. However, since your rounding resulted in 24.9, which is not an option, it seems like there might be an error in the options provided. The correct answer should be 26 based on the given numbers.