Question

The heights of 10 students of a class are (in cm):-

135, 143, 132, 149, 150, 143, 158, 124, 143, 152

Find the mode.

• A. 135
• B. 143
• C. 152
• D. 150

Answer 1

The correct option is B

143

We arrange the given data in the following way:

124, 132, 135, 143, 143, 143, 149, 150, 152 , 158 .

We see that in the above observation 143 is the height of the maximum number of students. Since the mode of a given number of observations is that value which occurs most frequently, the mode of the given data is 143.