Mode Statistics Example 4

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Example 4

easy
Find the mode or modes of the data set: 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 8, 9.

Solution

  1. 1
    Step 1: Count frequencies: 4 appears 2 times, 6 appears 2 times, and all other values appear once.
  2. 2
    Step 2: Since 4 and 6 are tied for the highest frequency, both are modes.

Answer

The data is bimodal with modes 44 and 66.
A data set can have more than one mode. When exactly two values tie for highest frequency, the distribution is described as bimodal.

About Mode

The mode is the value that appears most often in a data set. A set can have no mode (all values appear equally), one mode (unimodal), or multiple modes (bimodal or multimodal). It is the only measure of center that works for categorical data.

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More Mode Examples

Example 1 easy

Find the mode of the data set: 4, 7, 2, 7, 3, 7, 5, 2.

Example 2 medium

A shoe shop records sizes sold in one day: 6, 7, 8, 7, 9, 8, 7, 10, 8, 6. Is this data unimodal, bim

Example 3 easy

Find the mode of: Red, Blue, Green, Blue, Red, Blue, Green, Yellow.

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