Wesley is a professional runner. He ran five laps around a track. His times for the five laps were seconds, minute, minutes, seconds, and seconds. What is the median of these times?
, 2021
Pick one
Solution
Since there are 60 seconds in 1 minute, the number of seconds in 1.5 minutes is .
Thus, Wesley’s times were 63 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds, 68 seconds, and 57 seconds.
When these times in seconds are arranged in increasing order, we obtain 57, 60, 63, 68, 90.
Thus, the median time is 63 seconds.
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