What if you have two modes in a set of numbers?

Answer 1

For example...

If you had a set of numbers like this -

4, 6, 8, 1, 3, 4, 4, 4, 1, 7, 1, 6, 1,

... and you were asked to find the mode (the most frequently occurring value in a set of data)

then you would find that numbers 1 and 4 would BOTH be the mode because they both occur the most, yet they occur the same amount of times each.

So in this case you would simply end up with two different modes.

For this reason using the mode to find the average of a set of data is not always as reliable as using the median or the mean because with them you can have only one answer per data set.

How to find the Median :

For example these are YOUR numbers.

4,6,8,1,3,4,4,4,1,7,1,6,1

1) Find your two middle numbers.

2) Are they even ? ( if so add them (......) then what ever you get your answer by divide your answer by TWO.)

The two MIDDLE numbers are 4 AND 4.

3) I ADD 4 + 4.( = 8 )

4) 8 Divided by TWO.( = 4 )

THAT'S HOW YOU GET YOU MEADIAN !!!!

HOPEFULLY YOU UNDERSTAND * GOOD LUCK*

For example here is a set of numbers 3,4,2,4,3,3,4,7,4,3,4

you would go with four because it has more numbers occurring than three.

I would just like to add that it is helpful to put the numbers in order from least to greatest.