alleryStart learning →Which measure of the center is simply the value that appears most often?
AThe mode
BThe mean
CThe median
DThe middle
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. The mode
1. Some questions ask which value turns up most, not which value is typical on average.
2. The most frequent value in a data set is the mode.
3. The mean and the median can both land on a value that never appears in the data at all.
_Source: OpenStax High School Statistics (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 "Descriptive Statistics" and Ch 3 "Probability Topics", section 2.5 Measures of the Center of the Data_
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