The mode is the most frequently occurring number in a data set. Without the specific data of teachers' absences, the mode cannot be accurately determined, but the student would select the option that matches the most frequent number in their data.
- The mode of a set of data is the number that appears most frequently.
- To identify the mode, you need to count the number of times each number appears in the data set.
- The mode can be a single number, more than one number, or there may be no mode if no number repeats.
- If the data provided shows the number of absences for each of eighteen teachers, you would need to list out these numbers and determine which number(s) appear most frequently.
- However, because the specific data for the teachers' absences are not provided in the question, we cannot accurately determine the mode.
- Based on the options given (a. 0 and 3, b. 4.83, c. 5, d. no mode), option a would be chosen if 0 and 3 are the most frequently occurring numbers in the data; option b would be incorrect because 4.83 is a mean, not a mode; option c would be chosen if 5 is the most frequently occurring number; and option d would be chosen if there is no number that occurs more frequently than any other.