The 6 students in Mr. Bryant's class were asked how many minutes it takes to get to school in the morning. Here is what they answered: 9, 12, 8, 10, 9, 8

Find the medianand mean travel times for these students. If necessary, round your answers to the nearest tenth.

The median is when you line up the numbers from least to greatest and find the middle number:

8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 12

Since there is an even number of numbers, we take the two middle numbers and find the mean of them: (9 + 9) / 2 = 9.

So, the median is 9.

The mean is when you add all the numbers up and divide that by the number of numbers:

(8 + 8 + 9 + 9 + 10 + 12) / 6 = 56/6 which is about 9.3.

The median is 9 minutes, and the mean is about 9.3 minutes.