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A little birdie told us you wanted to shmoop a math problem…
A half dozen super-smart Martians took an IQ test to see how they matched up with the
average human. Find the median of their IQ scores: 120, 206, 138, 198, 150,
and 175. And here are the potential answers…
OK, so what’s this problem asking? Well, it’s really more of a vocab question than
a math problem.
The word of the day is:
MEDIAN Uh… the mathematical median.
But the idea comes from the same place – road medians divide things in the middle.
For median calculations we first put the numbers in order, low to high.
We sing the song: you know how it goes if you’ve ever been to math camp.
C’mon now sing it with me… Throw out the high…. throw out the low… throw out the
high… throw out the low….
And uh… here we stop. We have two left – 150 and 175.
To get the median, we just average the last two.
150 plus 175 is 325… divided by two is 162.5. So the answer is C.
“As in, “Come in peace.”