Practice Mode in Statistics
Use these practice problems to test your method after reviewing the concept explanation and worked examples.
Quick Recap
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.
The mode is the most popular value - the one that shows up the most. If 5 kids pick pizza, 3 pick tacos, and 2 pick burgers, pizza is the mode because it's the favorite.
Example 1
easyFind the mode of the data set: 4, 7, 2, 7, 3, 7, 5, 2.
Example 2
mediumA shoe shop records sizes sold in one day: 6, 7, 8, 7, 9, 8, 7, 10, 8, 6. Is this data unimodal, bimodal, or multimodal?
Example 3
easyFind the mode of: Red, Blue, Green, Blue, Red, Blue, Green, Yellow.
Example 4
easyFind the mode or modes of the data set: 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 8, 9.