Learn median data.pdf - QUESTION To inspect manufacturing...

QUESTION
To inspect manufacturing processes, companies typically examine samples of parts for deficiencies. One
company that manufactures ballpoint pens selected samples of pens on each of days. The company
recorded, for each sample of , the number of defective pens in the sample. Here are their data:
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(b) The median of a data set is the "middle value" when the measurements that make up the data set
have been ordered (sorted). If the number of measurements in the data set is odd , then the median
is the middle measurement in the ordered list, that is, the median is the measurement in position
in the ordered list. If is even , then the median is the mean of the two middle measurements in the
ordered list, that is, the median is the mean of the measurements in the positions just above and just
below