Solution: Ordering the data from least to greatest, we get:
2.7,  3.5,  5.1,  8.3
  Since there is an even number of data in the set, we compute the median by taking the mean  of the two middlemost numbers.
  3.5 + 5.1 = 8.6
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Answer: The median race time was 4.3 hr.