Quartiles - what computation method is correct?

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I am not sure what method use for computation a lower and upper quartil. In my textbook there is a rule for lower quartil -"lower quartil is median of lower half of data" and "upper quartil is median of upper half of data". But when I compute these quartils in Open Office Calc the results are different.

For example I have this table of frequencies:

value   frequency
3       1
6       4
7       15
8       10
10      10   

In my oppinion (and according to my textbook) the upper quartile is 9 and not 7,5 as is counted in OpenOffice Calc.

What value is correct?