Given a list of numbers organized from the smallest to the largest,the number that divides the list of numbers exactly in half is called the
A) average.
B) mean.
C) median.
D) middle point.

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The median is the middle number in a list of numbers when they are arranged in order. It is the value that separates the first half of the data from the second half. Therefore, the median is the best choice for the number that divides the list of numbers into two equal halves. The average (A) or mean (B) is the sum of all numbers divided by the total number of items in the list, it does not necessarily divide the list in half. The middle point (D) is not a standard statistical term and can be misleading.

Given a List of Numbers Organized from the Smallest to the Largest,the