SSAT Middle Level Math : Data Analysis and Probability

Study concepts, example questions & explanations for SSAT Middle Level Math

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Example Questions

Example Question #103 : Data Analysis

Find the mode of this set of numbers:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Find the number that appears most frequently.

The answer is .

Example Question #104 : Data Analysis

What is the mode for the following set of numbers?

 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The mode is the number that occurs most often in the list.  Since 12 appears three times, and no other number shows up as often, the mode is 12.

Example Question #105 : Data Analysis

John loves to play video games, and in a new game, his point scores have been 12, 12, 11, 11, 12, 10, and 9 for the 7 games that he has played so far. What is the mode of his scores? 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

A mode is a number (or score in this case) that occurs the most in a set. In this set, the number 12 occurs three times, the most of any of the numbers. Therefore, it is the mode and the correct answer is 12. 

Example Question #106 : Data Analysis

What is the mode of this set of numbers?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

In a set, the mode is the number that appears most frequently.

The number 232 is the number that appears most frequently because is the only number that appears twice. Therefore, it is the mode.

Example Question #8 : How To Find Mode

Over the past five days, John has run the following number of miles:

If M is equal to the mode, R is equal to the median, and J is equal to the mean, what is the order of M, R, and J from smallest to largest?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The first step is to reorder the set  in order from smallest to largest. 

The mode (which occurs most often) is 3, so

The median (which is the middle number in the set) is , so

The mean (or average) is ,

so 

Therefore, 

Example Question #6 : How To Find Mode

Bruce sells cookies to his neighbors. On Monday, he sold  cookies, on Tuesday he sold  cookes, on Wednesday he sold  cookies, on Thursday he sold  cookies, and on Friday he sold  cookies. What is the mode of the daily cookies he sold?

Possible Answers:

 cookies

 cookies

 cookies

 cookies

 cookies

Correct answer:

 cookies

Explanation:

The mode is the number that appears the most in a sequence. Given that the number  appears twice while the other numbers only appear once, it is the mode. 

Example Question #7 : How To Find Mode

Jenny was selling magazines for a fundraiser. Below is the number of magzines she sold per day over the last  days:

What is the mode of the number of magazines that she sold per day?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The mode of a set is the number that occurs the most often in the set.

Given that  appears more than any other number ( times), it is the mode of the set. 

Example Question #111 : Data Analysis

What is the mode of the above set?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The mode is the most occuring value which is  since it occured  separate times in the set.

Example Question #542 : Ssat Middle Level Quantitative (Math)

Use the following data set to answer the question:

Find the mode.

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the mode of a data set, we will find the number that appears most often.  

So, given the set

we can see the number that appears most often is 4 (it appears 3 times).

Therefore, the mode of the data set is 4.

Example Question #112 : Data Analysis

Find the mode of the following numbers. 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Mode is the number that appears the most amount of times. 

 is the only number that appears three times.

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