Question

Avery is getting ready for a fun-filled family vacation. She went to a supermarket and bought a lot of packets of the following items:

Items	Number of Packs
Almonds	$11$
Pistachios	$6$
Walnuts	$11$
Chocolate Bar	$16$
Toffee	$11$

Find the mode(s) of the given categorical data set.

• A. Almonds and Walnuts
• B. Toffee
• C. Chocolate Bar
• D. No mode

Answer 1

The correct option is C Chocolate Bar

Items	Number of Packs
Almonds	$11$
Pistachios	$6$
Walnuts	$11$
$\underset{–}{\text{Chocolate Bar}}$	$\underset{–}{16}$
Toffee	$11$

The above frequency table is for a categorical data set.

From the frequency table, it is clear that the chocolate bar pack appears $16$ times, which is the highest number of packets in a particular category in Avery's purchase for the family vacation.

Hence, the mode of the given categorical data set is $\text{chocolate bar}$.