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SAT I 每日一问:2013年10月7日

沪江英语 2013-10-08 08:00
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The correct answer is B

Explanation

The median of five numbers can be found by putting the numbers in increasing order and picking the middle, or third, number from the list. Putting the four numbers you know in increasing order produces the following list:

Thus, if  is less than or equal to , the list of the numbers in increasing order will be

In either case, the median will be . However, if  is greater than , the list of numbers in increasing order will be

or 

or 

In these cases, the median will be either n or 508. Since you know that the median is 456, it must be true that  is less than or equal to 456. Also, since no two games had the same attendance, the number  cannot be equal to 456. Therefore, the greatest possible value of n is 455.

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