Question

Find the mode of the following set of numbers.
3, 7, 5, 13, 20, 23, 39, 23, 40, 23, 14, 12, 56, 23, 29

• A. Most frequent value
• B. Least frequent value
• C. Middle most value
• D. Average value

Answer 1

The correct option is B

Least frequent value

In order these numbers are:

3, 5, 7, 12, 13, 14, 20, 23, 23, 23, 23, 29, 39, 40, 56

This makes it easy to see which numbers appear most often.

In this case, the mode is 23.