A customer service center keeps track of the number of complaints received each day about one of their new products.The numbers of complaints received over the last 11 day period are 19, 18, 22, 21, 17, 18, 22, 19, 16, 23, and 25.The median for this sample of data is
A)22.
B)20.
C)19.
D)17.
E)16.

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First, arrange the numbers in ascending order: 16, 17, 18, 18, 19, 19, 21, 22, 22, 23, 25. The median is the middle number in a sorted list of numbers. In this case, with 11 numbers, the 6th number is the median, which is 19.

A Customer Service Center Keeps Track of the Number of Complaints