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prealgebra senior
Problem
Melanie computes the mean , the median , and the modes of the values that are the dates in the months of . Thus her data consist of , , . . . , , , , and . Let be the median of the modes. Which of the following statements is true?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
Solution
First of all, obviously has to be smaller than , since when calculating , we must take into account the s, s, and s. So we can eliminate choices and . Since there are total entries, the median, , must be the one, at which point we note that is , so has to be the median (because is between and ). Now, the mean, , must be smaller than , since there are many fewer s, s, and s. is less than , because when calculating , we would include , , and . Thus the answer is .
Final answer
E