The mass of a whiffle ball varies, usually between 40 and 50 grams. You decide to gather a random sample of whiffle balls and record the mass of each. Your data is displayed in the table below. (Units are grams.)
| 49.4 | 43.2 | 51.1 | 41.8 | 44.6 | 46.1 | 43.4 | 46.5 | 45.8 | 46.2 |
| 46.1 | 45 | 44.4 | 41.3 | 40.7 | 45.6 | 43.5 | 47.5 |
You would like to describe a "typical" whiffle ball from your data set. You decide to make several calculations describing the "center" of the data set.
Find the following:
a) mean
b) median