FormuladrillTypical house price
An Excel formula exercise from Formuladrill. Solve it with a formula bar on a live sheet in your browser, and it is checked the moment you submit.
The task
One very expensive house pulls the average up. Put the median price in E2 instead.
What this exercise teaches
MEDIAN ignores how extreme the outliers are, which is why prices and salaries are usually reported as medians.
A hint if you get stuck
The median is the middle value once the numbers are sorted. There is a function for it.
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