Question

Jennifer has the following data: 17, 7, 5, `n`. If the mode is 17, what number does `n` have to be?

Answer 1

The mode is the value which occurs the most often, the value with the highest frequency. `n = 17`

Explanation:

There are three values given, 17, 7 and 5. They each occur once.
At this stage there is no mode.

However if there is another unknown value `(n)`, and the mode is 17, then `n` has to be 17, so that 17 will occur more often than any other number.

The values would then be 17, 17, 7 5