Question

Tina brought cupcakes with different icings for her classmates one day.
Variety of Cupcakes Eaten by Number of Classmates

Berry Cupcake	$5$
Lemon Cupcake	$9$
Pistachio Cupcake	$3$
White-cream Cupcake	$4$

Tina's mother asked her which cupcakes were the most popular. Can you guess the answer?

• A. $9$
• B. Lemon cupcakes
• C. Pistachio Cupcake
• D. $3$

Answer 1

The correct option is B Lemon cupcakes

Variety of Cupcake
Eaten by Number of Classmates

Berry Cupcake	$5$
Lemon Cupcak	$9$
Pistachio Cupcake	$3$
White-cream Cupcake	$4$

The most popular cupcakes signify the variety of cupcake that is being eaten by the most number of classmates. It represents the mode of the data set.

As the provided frequency table has a maximum, this data set has a mode.

Here, the maximum value is $9$, which corresponds to the lemon cupcake.

$\therefore$ Lemon cupcakes were the most popular.