Question

In a community, the types of pet adopted by different people is plotted in the following graph.


Find the mode of the data set.

• A. Cat or dog.
• B. Cat and dog.
• C. Rabbit, fish or hamster.
• D. Rabbit, fish, and hamster.

Answer 1

The correct option is B Cat and dog.


The given data set depicts the type of pet on the horizontal axis and the number of particular pet adopted on the vertical axis.

The mode of a data set represents the data point(s) having the maximum frequency.

From the graph, it is inferred that the maximum number of pets adopted is 40 and corresponds to both dog and cat.

$\therefore$ Mostly, cats and dogs are adopted in the community.

$\Rightarrow$ Mode of the data set is cat and dog.