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A student surveyed 100 students at her school to find out if they preferred musical, comedy, science-fiction, or drama movies. Which statistical measure should she use to describe the data obtained from the survey?

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I would use the mode.
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Mode

The mode is a statistical term that refers to the most frequently occurring number found in a set of numbers.

so the data is categorized with the help of mode on the preferred genre.

for example, mode for musical movie = 3. This means 3 students like musical movies

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