What is the median for the following scores for Mrs. Johnson's first test? 59, 22, 87, 44, 96, 38, 70, 85, 79

To work out the median, you need to numerically sort the data (because currently, it's unordered).

The ordered set of data is: 22, 38, 44, 59, 70, 79, 85, 87, 96

Now you just need to pick the middle value, which is 70:

(as you can see: 22, 38, 44, 59, 70, 79, 85, 87, 96)

Therefore, your answer is 70 :)