Question

Mariko asked the students in her class the name of their favorite local band. This is the data she collected: Queen Bees, Time Warp, Zenith, Queen Boos, Queen Beos, Iron Lightning, Algorithm, Algorithm, Zenith, Queen Bees, Iron Lighting, Time Warp. Zenith, Queen Boos, Algorithm, Time Warp, Queen Bees, Zenith Which band is the mode in this set of data? Explain.​

Answer 1

zenith

Explanation:

first,

let’s organize data into seeing how many of each band there are-

Bands: # of favorite band by students
Queen Bees : 3

Time Warp : 3

Zenith : 4

Queen Boos : 2

Queen Beos : 1

Iron Lighting : 1

Algorithm : 3

The mode: put the numbers in order from least to greatest and count how many times each number occurs.

In this case we see what band is the must picked for favorite, hence the most favorite band will be Zenith, since it has the highest number.