Question

The following data set represents the ACT scores for students in Mrs. Smith's collegescience class.18 32 16 2319 21 28 2922 30 19 21What ACT score is the mode for the class?

Answer 1

Recall that in statistics, the mode is the value that appears most frequently in a set of data. You may find it useful to represent the data in statistical graphs such as dot plots or bar charts. In this case, we will use the following chart

As we can see from the image, The most frequently used numbers are 19 and 21. We are dealing with a bimodal data set. The mode is given by 19 and 21.