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Determine the mode of the set.
Explanation
Mode refers to the number occuring most often, so in this example we are looking for the numbers that repeat and how many times they repeat.
repeats twice
repeats twice
repeats twice
Now because all three numbers repeated an equal amount of time, all three then become our mode.
Answer :
What is the mode?
Explanation
Mode is the data point that occurs most frequently.
Let's arrange in increasing order. We have
.
and
occur twice and are the most frequent. We can have more than one mode so the answer is
.
Consider the following set of numbers:
Find the mode of the set.
Explanation
The mode of the set is the most repeated number in the set. In this case there is number being repeated once and another being repeated twice.
Therefore the answer will be the number that is being repeated twice, .
This number can be seen in red.
What is the mode?
Explanation
Mode is the data point that occurs most frequently.
Let's arrange in increasing order. We have
.
occur twice while the rest only once.
Therefore, is our final answer.
What is the mode?
Explanation
Mode is the data point that occurs most frequently.
Let's arrange in increasing order. We have
.
occurs three times while the rest only twice.
Therefore, is the answer.
For a school project, Jonas asked his classmates how many siblings they had. of his classmates had
siblings,
had
sibling,
had
siblings, and
had
siblings. What is the mode of the number of siblings his classmates had?
Explanation
In a data set, the mode is the number that occurs most frequently.
Because 18 of his classmates only had 1 sibling, 1 is the number that appears most often.
Steven is a high school athlete who competes in the long jump. He recorded his last 7 jumps: 15 feet, 18 feet, 19 feet, 12 feet, 15 feet, 18 feet, 15 feet. What is the mode of his long jump lengths?
Explanation
The mode of a data set is the number that occurs most often. Because Steven managed to long jump 15 feet 3 times, 15 feet is the mode.
Find the mode of the following numbers:
Explanation
The mode is the number that occurs the most in a group.
Rearranging our numbers we get:
While does occur twice,
occurs three times, and no other number does, so
must be the mode.
Anthony takes six math tests and achieves these scores:
Find the mode of these scores.
Explanation
The mode is the number that is repeated most often. In this set of scores, the two numbers repeated are 76 (repeated twice) and 86 (repeated three times). Since 86 is repeated most, it is the mode.
John's past five test scores were
.
What is the mode of his test scores?
Explanation
The mode of a set of numbers is the number that occurs the most times.
Since 85 appears twice, and all other numbers appeared only once, 85 is the mode.