Mode and Median Exercise 1
Investigation 1 - Determining the mode
1 The mode is indicated in each of the following sets of data. Study each
data set and figure out how to determine its mode.
Data
3,5,7,8, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14
Mode
8
10, 10, 10, 14, 17, 18, 24, 24, 26, 31,35
10
0
45889
1
012224557
12
2
023 34 8
Key: 1|7=17
6.2, 8.5, 9.3, 6.2, 8.7, 11.4, 9.3, 7.6, 8.5
6.2 and 8.5
10
01223
12
1 2 3 3 4 4557
132
13
2223
489
Key: 10|0=100
3, 15, 2, 7, 18, 10, 10, 7, 15
12, 10, 17, 24, 31, 32, 18, 19, 25, 29
7,10 and 15
No mode
2 Write down a rule to determine the mode of a set of data.
3 Define mode as used in statistics.
criterion
B