Question

Kerry packed $5$ mangoes, $10$ guavas, $3$ pineapples, $15$ apples and $7$ strawberries in a fruit basket for her school picnic. Which fruit appears the most frequently in the basket?

• A. Mango
• B. Strawberry
• C. Guava and apple
• D. Apple

Answer 1

The correct option is D Apple

To find the most frequently occuring fruit in the basket, we make a frequency table.
Frequency Table

Fruits	Frequency
Mango	$5$
Guava	$10$
Pineapple	$3$
$\underset{–}{\text{Apple}}$	$\underset{–}{15}$
Strawberry	$7$

From the above frequency table, we can observe that apple is appearing the most number of times in the fruit basket.

Hence, the mode of the given fruits data is $\text{apple}$.