Not Your Grandmother's Textbook Exercise
> <i>(d) Compute the mean age, and print it out as the median. It's much easier to program, and Mary Jones will probably never notice the difference.</i><p>Lol. If it’s not the most important statistic to Mary Jones, I can see why a programmer might do this.<p>> <i>Mary Jones in the Accounting Department tells you that she has a file of personnel records [2022 update: an Excel sheet] and asks you to develop a program to compute the median age of the personnel in the file.</i><p>I’ll probably add option (e) if it’s Excel: Mary Jones, you can learn and do this yourself. Just Google it or something.