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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

  1. The mode is the number that occurs most frequently in a set of numbers
  2. It will make it much easier to find the mode of this set if we first order it from least to greatest
  3. After writing a number from the set, check it off the list so we know that we've accounted for it
  4. Count how many times each number occurs to find the mode
  5. Since all of the numbers in the set occur an equal number of times, there is no mode for this set!

Notes

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