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2016 AMC 8

Part of AMC 8

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Guess-the-Length-of-the-Name Game

The following bar graph represents the length (in letters) of the names of 19 people. What is the median length of these names? <spanclass=latexbold>(A)</span>3<spanclass=latexbold>(B)</span>4<spanclass=latexbold>(C)</span>5<spanclass=latexbold>(D)</span>6<spanclass=latexbold>(E)</span>7<span class='latex-bold'>(A) </span>3\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(B) </span>4\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(C) </span>5\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(D) </span>6\qquad <span class='latex-bold'>(E) </span>7
[asy] unitsize(0.9cm); draw((-0.5,0)--(10,0), linewidth(1.5)); draw((-0.5,1)--(10,1)); draw((-0.5,2)--(10,2)); draw((-0.5,3)--(10,3)); draw((-0.5,4)--(10,4)); draw((-0.5,5)--(10,5)); draw((-0.5,6)--(10,6)); draw((-0.5,7)--(10,7)); label("frequency",(-0.5,8)); label("0", (-1, 0)); label("1", (-1, 1)); label("2", (-1, 2)); label("3", (-1, 3)); label("4", (-1, 4)); label("5", (-1, 5)); label("6", (-1, 6)); label("7", (-1, 7)); filldraw((0,0)--(0,7)--(1,7)--(1,0)--cycle, black); filldraw((2,0)--(2,3)--(3,3)--(3,0)--cycle, black); filldraw((4,0)--(4,1)--(5,1)--(5,0)--cycle, black); filldraw((6,0)--(6,4)--(7,4)--(7,0)--cycle, black); filldraw((8,0)--(8,4)--(9,4)--(9,0)--cycle, black); label("3", (0.5, -0.5)); label("4", (2.5, -0.5)); label("5", (4.5, -0.5)); label("6", (6.5, -0.5)); label("7", (8.5, -0.5)); label("name length", (4.5,-1.5)); [/asy]