GMAT Divisibility: What is the median of the integers in S?
Question
List S consists of the positive integers that are multiples of 9 and are less than 100. What is the median of the integers in S?
- 36
- 45
- 49
- 54
- 63
Topics: divisibility, median, sequences & series
Solution
Step 1
We first list the elements of S and determine how many terms there are.
S = 9, 18,..., 99 n = (99-9)/9 + 1 = 90/9 + 1 = 10 + 1 = 11
Step 2
We note that S is an evenly spaced set so its median equals its average.
median = (9+99)/2 = 108/2 = 54
Answer
54 (D)
