QuestionThe table shows how many cousins each of 30 students in Class A has.
\begin{tabular}{cc}
Number of cousins & Frequency \\
0 & 3 \\
1 & 7 \\
2 & 6 \\
3 & 11 \\
4 & 1 \\
5 & 2
\end{tabular}
Write down the mode of the number of cousins.
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STEP 1
What is this asking? Which number of cousins appears most often in the class? Watch out! Don't confuse **mode** (most frequent) with **median** (middle value) or **mean** (average).
STEP 2
1. Understand Mode
2. Find the Mode
STEP 3
The **mode** is the value that shows up the *most*!
It's like the *popular* kid in the data set.
It's the value with the highest **frequency**.
STEP 4
Look at the table.
The left column shows the **number of cousins**, and the right column shows the **frequency** (how many students have that number of cousins).
STEP 5
We see that cousins has a frequency of .
This is the *highest* frequency in the table!
STEP 6
No other number of cousins has a frequency as high as .
STEP 7
The mode of the number of cousins is .
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