Question

Mr.Anderson's fifth grade class is getting a class pet. 7 students vote to get a gerbil, 3 vote for a fish, 6 vote for a mouse , and 4 vote for a lizard.

If each pet had 9 votesvwhat would the mode have been?

Answer 1

From the statement presented above,
These are the following tally of votes

Gerbil - 7
Fish - 3
Mouse - 6
Lizard - 4

By definition, a mode is the value that appears most often in a set of data. From the given data, the mode of is Gerbil because it has the most number of votes.