Here again is the histogram showing the distribution of 50 a

Here again is the histogram showing the distribution of 50 ages at death due to trauma (accidents and homicides) that occurred in a certain hospital during a week. A possible value of the median in this example is

Solution

Median is the middle value which of a data set when sorted. Since there are a total of 50 values, median will be the average of 25th and 26th term in the data set. The first two classes contains a total of 21 terms(3+18). The third class (30-40) contains 22nd to 34th terms. Thus the median will lie in this class. Thus the possible value of median will lie between 30 and 40. Thus 33 should be the correct option.