While doing an experiment, a physics student recorded the following sequence of elapsed times (in seconds) in a lab notebook. Find the median.
\[
2.18,2.31,2.43,10.23,2.32,2.41,2.37 \text { 만 }
\]

The median is seconds.
(Round to the nearest hundredth as needed.)

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So, the median is \(\boxed{2.37}\) seconds.

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Step 1 ：Sort the list of times: [2.18, 2.31, 2.43, 10.23, 2.32, 2.41, 2.37] to get [2.18, 2.31, 2.32, 2.37, 2.41, 2.43, 10.23].

Step 2 ：Since the list has 7 observations, which is an odd number, the median is the middle value.

Step 3 ：The middle value in the sorted list is 2.37.

Step 4 ：So, the median is \(\boxed{2.37}\) seconds.