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Re:Not Your Grandmother's Textbook Exercise by deanmen on Thursday September 01, 2022 @11:05PM (#32686129)
Excel has MEDIAN built-in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/median-function-d...
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Re:Not Your Grandmother's Textbook Exercise by sbierwagen on Thursday September 01, 2022 @11:26PM (#32686236)
You can also install the Analysis ToolPak add-in, select the column, click Data -> Data Analysis -> Descriptive Statistics. Gives mean, median, mode, SD and a bunch of other things. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-the-analysis-...

Has been in Excel since 2007.

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Re:Not Your Grandmother's Textbook Exercise by mananaysiempre on Friday September 02, 2022 @05:22AM (#32688581)
Since 1997 at least (except it’s under Tools there).
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Re:Not Your Grandmother's Textbook Exercise by cwillu on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:05AM (#32688847)
The problem states that Mary has an Excel file. It does _not_ state that Mary has an Excel software licence, or even a computer with which to run it.
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Re:Not Your Grandmother's Textbook Exercise by k_sze on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:10AM (#32688874)
You have LibreOffice nowadays.
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Re:Not Your Grandmother's Textbook Exercise by ZoomZoomZoom on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:28AM (#32688999)
The problem states that Mary has an Excel file. It does _not_ state that Mary has an access to a personal computer or a device allowing remotely accessing one.
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Re:Not Your Grandmother's Textbook Exercise by k_sze on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:45AM (#32689096)
My bad. The problem also does not state that Mary has adequate eyesight to use a computer or that she even has access to electricity to power a computer. Life is so hard
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