The median of the following marks of the students in a class, is 34,32,48,38,24,30,27,21,35
32
34
38
30
Arranging the data in ascending order of magnitude, we have
21,24,27,30,32,34,35,38,48
Since there are 9, an odd number of items. Therefore, median is the value of 9+12th observation i.e., 32.