Practice Mode in Statistics

Use these practice problems to test your method after reviewing the concept explanation and worked examples.

Quick Recap

The value that appears most often in a data set. A set can have no mode, one mode, or multiple modes.

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

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, bimodal, or multimodal?

Example 3

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

Example 4

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