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How Do You Find the Mode of a Data Set Where All The Numbers are Different?
Find the mode of this data set: 26, 35, 30, 21, 16, 45, 31, 19
Summary
- The mode is the number that occurs most frequently in a set of numbers
- It will make it much easier to find the mode of this set if we first order it from least to greatest
- After writing a number from the set, check it off the list so we know that we've accounted for it
- Count how many times each number occurs to find the mode
- Since all of the numbers in the set occur an equal number of times, there is no mode for this set!

Notes
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- If our numbers are in order, then numbers that are the same will be next to each other
- That will make it really easy to find the mode!
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- Remember, the mode is the number that occurs the most often in the data set
- So we want to count how many times each number occurs so we can figure out which one occurs the most!
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- If we count how many times each number occurs, then we'll be able to tell which one occurs the most!
- In our data set, each number appears one time
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- If all the numbers appear the same number of times in a data set, then there is no mode