Algebra 1 : How to find mode

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Example Questions

Example Question #1922 : Algebra 1

Find the mode of the following set:

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the mode of any set, find the number which occurs the greatest number of times in the set.  

 

2 occurs 3 times

3 occurs 4 times

4 occurs 3 times

5 occurs 1 time

Therefore the mode is: 

Example Question #141 : How To Find Mode

Find the mode:   

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

The mode is the highest frequency of the number or numbers in a dataset.

Simplify all terms in the dataset.

Both the numbers two and three occur in the dataset twice, while the other numbers occur in the dataset once.

The answer is:  

Example Question #141 : How To Find Mode

Find the mode of the following set:

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the mode of any set, find the number which occurs the greatest number of times in the set.  The best answer is five.

Example Question #142 : How To Find Mode

Find the mode of the following set:

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the mode of any set, find the number which occurs the greatest number of times in the set.  The best answer is eight.

Example Question #143 : How To Find Mode

Find the mode of the following set:

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the mode of any set, find the number which occurs the greatest number of times in the set.  The best answer is one.

Example Question #144 : How To Find Mode

Find the mode of the following set:

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the mode of any set, find the number which occurs the greatest number of times in the set.  The best answer is four.

Example Question #145 : How To Find Mode

Jennifer has to sort and organize numbers for her job. Her company would like her to find the most frequently occurring number of times an outside company uses their services. Each company uses Jennifer's company the following number of times a year: {10, 10, 6, 8, 8, 10, 9, 9, 9, 6, 2, 10 2, 2 10, 9, 7, 8, 9, 10}.

What is the most occurring number of times that Jennifer's company is used a year?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

This is a mode question; to find the mode you must first organize the numbers in ascending order:

{2, 2, 2, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10}

Upon doing this you will find that the number 10 occurs the most number of times - six.

Example Question #146 : How To Find Mode

Find the mode of the dataset:  

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

The mode is the number or numbers that have the highest occurrence in a dataset.

The only number that appears more than once is , as every other number only appears once.

The answer is:  

Example Question #508 : Statistics And Probability

A bakery keeps track of how many pastries they sell each month, they want to see the most frequent occurring number of pastries they sell over the course of a year. They know that they sell  pastries each month over the course of the year. What is the mode of this information?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

The first step in this problem is to rearrange the numbers in ascending order:

Then, count the number of times that each number occurs to find the one that occurs the most, which is the mode.

 is the number that occurs the most times and is therefore your mode.

Example Question #141 : How To Find Mode

A test was given to a class of students. Three students scored , two scored , one scored , two scored and two scored . What was the modal score of the class? 

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

Modal score or mode of this score set is the score that repeats itself the highest number of times. Here  repeats itself  three times. The other scores repeat themselves at most two times. Hence  is the modal score of the class.

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