Question 16.3.5: Professor Miller gave the same test to both his day and even......
Professor Miller gave the same test to both his day and evening sections of Business Math at American River College. Find the mode of the tests given in each class. Which class has the lower mode?
(a) Day Class: 85, 92, 81, 73, 78, 80, 83, 80, 74, 69, 80, 65, 71,
65, 80, 93, 54, 78, 80, 45, 70, 76, 73, 80, 71, 68
(b) Evening Class: 68, 73, 59, 76, 79, 73, 85, 90, 73, 69, 73,
75, 93, 73, 76, 70, 73, 68, 82, 84, 77
(a) The number 80 is the mode for the day class because it occurs more often than any other number. It occurs 6 times.
(b) The number 73 is the mode for the evening class because it occurs more often than any other number. It occurs 6 times as well.
The evening class has the lower mode.