2.43 Marriage statistics for 20–24-year-olds The table in the next column shows the number of times 20–24-year-old U.S. residents have been married, based on a Bureau of the Census report from 2004. The frequencies are actually thousands of people. For instance, 8,418,000 men never married, but this does not affect calculations about the mean or median.

a. Find the median and mean for each gender.

b. On average, have women or men been married more often? Which statistic do you prefer to answer this question? (The mean, as opposed to the median, uses the numerical values of all the observations, not just the ordering. For discrete data with only a few values such as the number of times married, it can be more informative.)

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Number of Times Married, for Subjects of Age 20-24 Frequency Number Times Married Women Men 0 7350 8418 1 2587 1594 2 80 10 Total 10,017 10,022