A Class of 40 Students Is Attempting to Guess the Number

Multiple Choice

A class of 40 students is attempting to guess the number of jellybeans in a glass jar. They write all of their numbers on a piece of paper one at a time. The last student to come up to write their number down happens to be the daughter of a statistician and remembers a "trick" to this game. Taking what value of the 39 guesses will yield a value closest to the actual value?

A) The minimum
B) The mode
C) The median
D) The standard deviation