Question

A selection of staff wages is collected and shown below. £254 £254 £310 £276 £116 £90 £312 £180 £180 £536 £350 £243 £221 £165 £239 £700 What is the mode of staff wages? £ and £

Answer 1

the mode is the amount/s which occurs most frequently.

In this data set there are 2 values which occur twice

the mode is £254 and £180

Answer 2

The mode of staff wages is:

£ 180 and £ 254

Explanation:

The mode of a data set is a data value that exist or occur in the set most frequently (i.e. most of the times)

We are given data points as:

£254 £254 £310 £276 £116 £90 £312 £180 £180 £536 £350 £243 £221 £165 £239 £700

On arranging these data points along with their frequency we get:

Data point Frequency

£90 1

£116 1

£165 1

£180 2

£221 1

£239 1

£243 1

£254 2

£276 1

£310 1

£312 1

£350 1

£536 1

£700 1

Two data points has highest frequency

£180 and £254

( since both have frequency 2)