You enter a prison that has many inmates of varying ages. You must interview one inmate for a research project. This inmate should be just in the middle of the age distribution of inmates-that is, an inmate who is younger than half the other inmates and older than the other half. Which statistic should you use?
A) standard deviation
B) mean
C) median
D) mode

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The median is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, which perfectly fits the requirement of finding an inmate who is younger than half the other inmates and older than the other half.

You Enter a Prison That Has Many Inmates of Varying