Question

The National Association of College and University Business Officers collects data on college endowments. In 2015, its report included the endowment values of 841 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. When the endowment values are arranged in order, what are the locations of the median and the quartiles in this ordered list?

(Enter the position of the median and quartiles in the answer blanks, not the actual values of the median and quartiles. The data set of all 841 values is not provided here so it would be impossible to find the values of the median and quartiles with the information provided.)

What is the position of the median? (Enter you answer rounded to the nearest whole number.)

What is the position of the first quartile? (Enter your answer rounded to one decimal place.)

What is the position of the third quartile? (Enter your answer rounded to one decimal place.)

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