2020 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 11

The following problem is from both the 2020 AMC 12A #8 and 2020 AMC 10A #11, so both problems redirect to this page.

Problem 11

What is the median of the following list of $4040$ numbers $?$

$1, 2, 3, ..., 2020, 1^2, 2^2, 3^2, ..., 2020^2$

$\textbf{(A)}\ 1974.5\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 1975.5\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 1976.5\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 1977.5\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 1978.5$

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