Mrs. johnson's first test's data: 59, 22, 87, 44, 96, 38, 70, 85, 79. the median is labeled q2 for the 2nd quartile. what is the q2 for mrs. johnson's first test?

The for Mrs. Johnson's first test is:

                                 70

The data that represent Mrs. Johnson first test data is:

       59, 22, 87, 44, 96, 38, 70, 85, 79.

We firstly arrange the given data in the increasing order or ascending order as follows:

        22    38      44     59     70    79     85     87      96

We know that the median of the data is the central tendency of the data and always exist in the middle of the data.

Hence, here by looking at the data we see that the number that exist in the middle of data is:

                               70

             The median of the data is:

                      70

associative property of multiplication