Question

The table below lists the number of floors in the 10 tallest buildings in the world. Note: The buildings are organized by height, not by the number of floors.

Skyscraper Number of Floors
Taipei 101
Shanghai World Financial Center 101
Petronas Tower 1 88
Petronas Tower 2 88
Greenland Square Zifeng Tower 69
Sears Tower 108
Jin Mao Tower 88
Two International Financial Centre 88
Citic Plaza 80
Shun Hing Square 69

What is the difference between the median and the mode for the number of floors?

Answer 1

Answer:The difference between median and mode is 0

Explanation:

Given the values of no. of floor

=101,101,88,88, 69, 108,88,88,80 ,69

For finding the median we arrange it in ascending order

i.e. 69,69,80,88,88,88,88,101,101,108

Now since the no. of observations are even so median = (
`(10)/(2)th`term +
`((10)/(2) +1)` th term) /2

i.e.
`(88+88)/(2)`

=
`(176)/(2)`

=88

Now mode is the observation having the highest frequency

In the above question 88 has the highest frequency of 4

So mode= 88

So difference between median and mode is 88-88

=0

Answer 2

Median is the middle value in a sequence of numbers, so here, that would be number 88. Mode is the value that appears most often. Here, that number would be 88, because it appears 4 times.
This means that the difference between the median and the mode for the number of floors is 88 - 88 = 0. The difference is zero.