Question

If the numbers are arranged in an ascending or descending order. Which number will appear in the middle place?
9898, 8998, 9889, 8899, 9988, 8989, 9998

Answer 1

Hint: In this problem, we have to arrange the given sequence of numbers either in ascending or descending and we have to find the number in the middle. We can first arrange the given sequence of numbers in ascending order, i.e. from smaller to larger, we can see that we have 7 sets of numbers, so the fourth set of numbers is the middle term, we can now find the answer.

Complete step-by-step solution:
Here we have to arrange the given sequence of numbers either in ascending or descending and we have to find the number in the middle.
We know that the given sequence of numbers is,
9898, 8998, 9889, 8899, 9988, 8989, 9998
We can first arrange the given sequence of number in ascending, i.e. from smaller to larger, we get
\[\Rightarrow 8899,8989,8998,9889,9898,9988,9998\]
Here we can see that we have 7 sets of numbers which is odd, so we will get an exact middle term, where the fourth is the middle term.
Therefore, 9889 is the middle term when the given sequence 9898, 8998, 9889, 8899, 9988, 8989, 9998 is arranged either in ascending or descending.

Note: We should always remember that ascending order is arranging the given sequence of numbers from smaller to larger and descending order is arranging the given sequence of numbers from larger to smaller, where the middle term remains the same, if there are odd numbers of terms.