What is the mode of the data set 3, 7, 9, 2, 5, 3, 4, 6, 1, 0?

1 Answer
Jun 27, 2016

Mode is #3#.

Explanation:

Mode represents the data with highest frequency. Let us arrange the data in increasing order and it is #{0,1,2,3,3,4,5,6,7,9}#. It is observed that except #3#, which has a frequency of #2#, all other have frequency just #1#. In other words frequency increases from #1# to #2# at #3# and then again falls to #1#.

As such the mode is #3#.

What will one do if data shows highest frequency at two point. For such data, it is better to use grouping method. For details on this, see here.