Question

The table below shows the sale of shirts of various sizes in a week.

$\begin{array}{cccccc}\text{Shirt size}& \text{38}& \text{39}& \text{40}& \text{41}& \text{42}\\ \text{Number sold}& \text{60}& \text{73}& \text{89}& \text{90}& \text{23}\end{array}$

The size which is most in demand is ___.

Answer 1

The frequencies of different observations are given in the table.

It can be seen that shirts of size 41 have the maximum frequency of 90.

So, the mode is 41 and size 41 is the size most in demand.