Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #9422: Creating box and whisker plots - finding the median
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-23 22:36:50+00:00
State: open
Labels: ie8, win7, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: rabeaustin@yahoo.com

I could be wrong but it seems on the box and whisker exercises, when it asks to find the median between the middle number and the largest number, it is in fact not taking the middle number. for example. you have numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8..1 being the middle number and 8 being the largest...to find the median you would take 4+5 divide by 2 for 4 and 5 are the middle numbers. however in the exercise, it would take number 5+6 and divide by two. this is inconsistent because when finding the median between the SMALLEST and middle number, again assuming your numbers are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 the program would indicate that 4 and 5 are the middle numbers, yet as stated above it would indicate that 5 and 6 are the middle numbers when finding the median between the middle and largest number. i just wanted to point this out. like i said i could be wrong.

[creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=62&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=62&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=62&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5B4%2C5%2C7%2C9.5%2C14%5D%22%2C96%5D%5D)

[[4,5,7,9.5,14]]

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