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What is the number or item that occurs most often in a data set?
mode
Mode of grouped of data?
The mode of a set of data is the most frequent value. Sometimes there is more than 1 most frequent value so there is more than one mode. For example our set is { 1,2,3,4,4,5,6,9} the mode is 4 and here is another set {1,2,3,3,4,5,6,6,7} the modes are 3 and 6 and we say the set is bimodal.
The item that occurs with the greatest frequency in a data set?
The MODE average of the data set.
How do you find the greatest value in a data set?
Put the first item in the data set into an empty memory location called, say, 'biggest'. Now compare the second and subsequent items in the data set with 'biggest'. If the item is larger than 'biggest' then put the value of the item in 'biggest', otherwise do nothing. By the time you have finished looking through the data set you will find that 'biggest' contains the greatest value in the data set.
What is the mode in the data sequance 30 10 40 20?
The mode in a set of data is the number which appears most frequently. For instance in the data set 2,2,3,5,6,7,7,7,7,8,9,9, the mode is clearly 7 as it appears most frequently. If there are two numbers that appear equally frequently, such as in the set 1,2,2,3,4,4,4,4,5,6,6,7,8,9,9,9,9, we would say the data is bimodal, and has modes of 4 and 9. If there are 3 equally frequent values, then the data is trimodal and so on. In your example all numbers are equally frequent (each occurring once). In this case we would say there is no mode.
