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Question
Find the mode of the following data.
12, 14, 12, 16, 15, 13, 14, 18, 19, 12, 14, 15, 16, 15, 16, 16, 15, 17, 13, 16, 16, 15, 15, 13, 15, 17, 15, 14, 15, 13, 15, 14.
Solution
Tabulating the given data
| Data | Tally marks | Frequency |
| 12 | ||| | 3 |
| 13 | |||| | 4 |
| 14 | |||| | 5 |
| 15 | |||| |||| | 10 |
| 16 | |||| | | 6 |
| 17 | || | 2 |
| 18 | | | 1 |
| 19 | | | 1 |
| Total | 32 |
The highest frequency is 10 which corresponds to the value 15.
Hence mode of this data is 15.
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