Question

A climatologist wants to determine the thickness of a glacier with a surface area of about 2 km2. He selected 12 locations at random on the glacier and then measured the thickness of the glacier, in meters, at each location.

29, 41, 38, 36, 29, 34, 44, 46, 43, 35, 40, 47

What is the estimated median thickness of the entire glacier?


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Answer 1

29, 29, 34, 35, 36, 38,40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47 
Put the Number's in Numerical order. The number in the center is the answer. If there isn't a number in the center, chose the number that is in the middle of the two numbers in the center. In this case, the answer is 39