The seventh grade class at a school had 297 students. The nurse called in a random sample of 10 students to measure their heights in inches, as shown below. 62

Question

The rest of the question: The seventh grade class at a school had 297 students. The nurse called in a random sample of 10 students to measure their heights in inches, as shown below.

62, 53, 65, 67, 62, 49, 53, 49, 62, 65

If the sample was representative of the entire seventh grade, what was the mode of the heights of the seventh grade class?

Answer 1

The mode is the data point which occurs most often in the sample.

In this case the number which appears the most often is 62 which

appears 3 times.

 

Mode = 62