Question

What is the mode of the numbers: 4, 7, 2, 4, 2, 2, 8, 7, 4, 2?

Answer 1

The modal value is `2`.

Explanation:

The mode (modal value) is the most frequent value in the set, so here the modal value is `2` because it occurs `4` times. Other numbers have less occurances than `4`.

Note: A set can have more than one modal values.
Example: If you analyze set:

`A={1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,4}`

you notice that numbers `1` and `2` repeat 3 times, number `3` occurs twice, and there is a single number `4`. So there are two modal values `1` and `2`

Answer 2

Mode is `2`

Explanation:

Mode is the value of the number with highest frequency in the set of data-points that is the one that occurs most often.

To find the mode of numbers `{4, 7, 2, 4, 2, 2, 8, 7, 4, 2}`, let us first arrange them in increasing order.

In increasing order these are `{2,2,2,2,4,4,4,7,7,8}`

As `2` occurs most of the time, the mode is `2`