The first strip reads "My market research indicates that 50% of your customers are above the median age," read by dogbert. The second strip reads "But the shocking discovery was that 50% were below the median age," said by dogbert. The last strip reads "What perecnt are exactly the median age" said by dilbert and dogbert replys "I'm proposing to study that in phase two.
This Dilbert comic is suposedly hilarious to anyone who understads what a median is. There is soomething funy in EACH strip.- 3 "laughs" in one comic strip! Please write a breif paragraph explaining what is funny in each of teh three strips.
2006-12-20 13:59:06 · 3 answers · asked by bsktballchik 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
If something's a median then it means that there's equally as many things above it as there are below. So if 50% of customers are above the median age it's obvious that 50% will be below the median age. And since these two percentages account for everyone, it's equally obvious that the percentage of customers at exactly the median age will be zero.
2006-12-20 14:12:05 · answer #1 · answered by Groucho Returns 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This sounds a bit silly to me. Is this all about the same group of people?
If 50% are above the median and 50% are below the median then presumably no one is actually the median age. However, since you get the median by counting off each case from both ends and arriving at the middle figure, presumably someone has to be the median age.
I guess one way that's not the case is if there are an even number of people in the group.
2006-12-20 22:11:03 · answer #2 · answered by Ladida 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Median is the middle of the group. So to say half is above and half is below is redundant. And 100% of the people who are the median age, are exactly the median age.
2006-12-20 22:03:10 · answer #3 · answered by b k 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋