SAT II Math I : Mode

Study concepts, example questions & explanations for SAT II Math I

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Example Questions

Example Question #1 : Mode

Find the mode of the following set of numbers:

\(\displaystyle 5,3,2,3,3,7,9,2\)

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 5\)

\(\displaystyle 3\)

\(\displaystyle 2\)

\(\displaystyle 9\)

\(\displaystyle 7\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 3\)

Explanation:

The mode of a set of numbers is the one that appears most often. Thus, our answer is \(\displaystyle 3\).

Example Question #2 : Mode

Find the mode of the following set of numbers:

\(\displaystyle 4,1,-2,5,1,8,9\)

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 1\)

\(\displaystyle 9\)

\(\displaystyle 4\)

\(\displaystyle -1\)

\(\displaystyle 2\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 1\)

Explanation:

The mode is the number that occurs the most frequently, so our answer is \(\displaystyle 1\).

Example Question #3 : Mode

What is the mode of 8, 7, 5, 4, 12, 13, 7, 2, 7?

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 4\)

\(\displaystyle 7\)

\(\displaystyle 12\)

\(\displaystyle 8\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 7\)

Explanation:

The mode is the number that is repeated the most within a set. In our case we see 7 repeated 3 times therefore our mode is 7

Example Question #4 : Mode

What's the mode?

\(\displaystyle 23, 24, 26, 25, 27, 23, 28, 29, 25, 21\)

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 23, 25\)

\(\displaystyle 28\)

\(\displaystyle 27\)

\(\displaystyle 25\)

\(\displaystyle 23\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 23, 25\)

Explanation:

Mode is the number occuring the most in the data set. By rearrangging in increasing order, we see that \(\displaystyle 23\) and \(\displaystyle 25\) occur twice. That will be our answers.

Example Question #5 : Mode

\(\displaystyle \left \{ 1,1,1,1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,7,7\right \}\)

Which value above would be the mode of this particular data set?

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 3\)

\(\displaystyle 1\)

\(\displaystyle 3.5\)

\(\displaystyle 7\)

\(\displaystyle 4\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 1\)

Explanation:

The mode is the value that occurs the most times in one set.  In the given set that value is \(\displaystyle 1\) which occurs five times.

\(\displaystyle \left \{ {\color{Red} 1,1,1,1,1},2,3,4,5,6,7,7,7\right \}\)

Example Question #5 : Mode

A class of statistics students scored the following on their last test:\(\displaystyle 98, 65, 85, 100, 76, 50, 88, 63, 70, 65, 70, 99, 82, 80, 78, 65, 94, 66\).

Calculate the mode for this data set.

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 65\)

\(\displaystyle 70\)

\(\displaystyle 87\)

\(\displaystyle 80\)

\(\displaystyle 64\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 65\)

Explanation:

The mode is the number that shows up more often than the others in a set of data.

If we put our data set in order we see:

98, 65, 85, 100, 76, 50, 88, 63, 70, 65, 70, 99, 82, 80, 78, 65, 94, 66

Becomes,

50, 63, 65, 65, 65, 66, 70, 70, 76, 78, 80, 82, 85, 88, 94, 98, 99, 100.

Therefore, 65 is the mode because it appears 3 times.

Example Question #1 : Mode

What is the mode of the following data set? 

{9, 10, 4, 11, 7, 5, 15, 7, 2, 20, 11, 19, 7, 9}

Possible Answers:

2

9

7

11

7 and 9

Correct answer:

7

Explanation:

Arrange the set in numerical order: {2, 4, 5, 7, 7, 7, 9, 9, 10, 11, 11, 15, 19, 20}.

You can then chart the frequency of each value.

Value (Frequency)

2 (1)

4 (1)

5 (1)

7 (3)

9 (2)

10 (1)

11 (2)

15 (1)

19 (1)

20 (1)

From this you can see the most common value, which is the mode, is 7.

 

Example Question #4 : How To Find Mode

A set comprises ten elements, which are

\(\displaystyle \begin{Bmatrix} 10, 12, 18, 12, 19, 20, 12, 19, 11, N \end{Bmatrix}\)

where \(\displaystyle N\) stands for an unknown number.

What can \(\displaystyle N\) be set to in order to make the set bimodal?

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 10\)

\(\displaystyle 12\)

The set cannot be bimodal for any value of N.

\(\displaystyle 19\)

\(\displaystyle 11\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 19\)

Explanation:

12 appears in the set most frequently, appearing three times; 19 is second in frequency, appearing twice. 10, 11, 18, and 20 appear once each.

The only number we can set \(\displaystyle N\) to to make two data values tie for appearing most frequently is 19; 12 and 19 would then each appear three times, and the others, once. If \(\displaystyle N\) is set to any other number, 12 would remain the most frequent data value.

Example Question #6 : Mode

Find the mode of the set:

\(\displaystyle 7, 10, 16, 16, 16, 16, 17, 23, 25, 27, 30, 31, 41, 57, 57, 58\)

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 23\)

\(\displaystyle 17\)

\(\displaystyle 16\)

\(\displaystyle 57\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 16\)

Explanation:

The mode is the most repeated number in the set. To answer this, find the number that occurs the most number of times in the set.

\(\displaystyle 7, 10, {\color{Red} 16}, {\color{Red} 16}, {\color{Red} 16}, {\color{Red} 16}, 17, 23, 25, 27, 30, 31, 41, 57, 57, 58\)

For this problem that gives us the answer of 16 for the mode.

Example Question #7 : Mode

Find the mode of the set:

\(\displaystyle 11, 13, 17, 22, 22, 22, 23, 23, 26, 28, 47, 49\)

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 23\)

\(\displaystyle 17\)

\(\displaystyle 26\)

\(\displaystyle 22\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 22\)

Explanation:

The mode is the most repeated number in the set. To answer this, find the number that occurs the most number of times in the set.

\(\displaystyle 11, 13, 17,{\color{Red} 22}, {\color{Red} 22}, {\color{Red} 22}, 23, 23, 26, 28, 47, 49\)

For this problem that gives us the answer of 22 for the mode.

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