“Did you understand?” Jack asked. At this, Jacob said, “I understood what mode is. Give me any question, I can find the mode of the observations.” Jack smiled at him and said- “Okay, I will give you a question and 3 hrs to solve it.” Jacob felt strange as for finding mode, 3 minutes would be enough, why was he given 3 hrs? Then Jack gave the problem:
What is the mode of the following set of observations?
9 13 5 9 6 9 9 17 13 11 12 13 19
13 0 9 13 21 7 13 7 17 9 0 7 11
Both 9 and 13
If we make an observation table for the data given in the question, we can get it as:
Here, 6 is the highest frequency and both 9 and 13 have the same frequency, i.e. 6. So, 9 and 13 both are the modes of this data set.
Note- A data set with 2 modes is called bimodal data set.