Grade 10 Maths · Statistics

Find the mode or modal class

Find the value that appears most often, or the group with the highest frequency, for example the mode of 2, 3, 3, 5 is 3.

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Question WE6 · Siyavula Grade 10 Mathematics, 10.2 Measures of central tendency, Worked example 6 · 2 marks

WE6 Find the mode of the data set

{2; 2; 3; 4; 4; 4; 6; 6; 7; 8; 8; 10; 10}

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3. Question 2.2 · November 2024 · Paper 2 · Provincial · 1 mark
The histogram below shows the distribution of examination scores for learners in Introductory stats.
2.2 Identify the modal class of the data.(1)
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  Identify class with highest frequency $60 < m \leq 70$
  1 mark · Find the mode or modal class
4. Question 1.1 · November 2024 · Paper 2 · Provincial · 1 mark
After utilising GeoGebra to teach geometry, the 14 participants marks out of 100 are displayed in the table below. $Diagram for this question$
1.1 Write down the mode of the data.(1)
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  ModeMode $= 41$
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5. Question 4.3 · September 2024 · Provincial · 1 mark
At a School Athletics Day, a stopwatch was used to find the time it took a group of athletes to run the 200m event. The results were recorded in a frequency table.
4.3 What is the modal class interval?(1)
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  Identify interval with highest frequency $40 \leq x < 50$
  1 mark · Find the mode or modal class

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