Question

The weights (in kg.) of 15 students of a class are :
38, 42, 35, 37, 45, 50, 32, 43, 43, 40, 36, 38, 43, 38, 47

(i) Find the mode and median of this data.

(ii) Is there more than one mode ?

Answer 1

(i) The weight of 15 students are arranged in ascending order.
32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 38, 38, 40, 42, 43, 43, 45, 47, 50.
Median is the middle score = 40 kgs. m
Mode is the highest frequency score = 38 and 43.

(ii) Yes, here there are 2 modes.