2019 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 12
- The following problem is from both the 2019 AMC 10A #12 and 2019 AMC 12A #7, so both problems redirect to this page.
Problem
Melanie computes the mean , the median
, and the modes of the
values that are the dates in the months of
. Thus her data consist of
,
, . . . ,
,
,
, and
. Let
be the median of the modes. Which of the following statements is true?
Solution 1
First of all, obviously has to be smaller than
, since when calculating
, you must take into account the
s,
s, and
s. So we can eliminate
and
. The median,
, is
, but the mean (
) must be smaller than
since there are many fewer
s,
s, and
s.
is less than
, because when calculating
, you include
,
, and
. Thus the answer is
Solution 2
Notice that there are total entries, so the median has to be the
one. Then, realize that
is
, so
has to be the median (because
is from
to
). Then, look at the modes
and realize that even if you have
of each, the median of those remains the same and you have
. When trying to find the mean, you realize that the mean of the first
is simply the same as the median of them, which is
. Then, when you see
's,
's, and
's, you realize that the mean has to be higher. On the other hand, since there are fewer
's,
's, and
's than the rest of the numbers, the mean has to be lower than
(the median). Then, you compare those values and you get the answer, which is
.
Solution 3
Bash out each of the values. I'm not going to show work here, but you should get ,
,
, so the answer is obviously
.
See Also
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