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Here’s your shmoop du jour: Given the chart below, what is the mode?
And here are the potential answers… OK, what is “mode”?
Very nice… looks like you’ve earned your allowance.
But we’re talking about a different animal.
Mode refers to the MOST FREQUENTLY recurring number or element in a series….
…i.e. the MODE of Congressmen in a data set of geniuses and boneheads would be…
boneheads.
Since 4 has the largest bar height, or a frequency of about 360, that's our mode!
Looks like our answer is D.
Why does that look so familiar…?