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The mode of a data set is the value that occurs most frequently. In other words, you are looking for the value with the highest frequency. The following data set gives the number of hours kids spend on homework every night. 2       3        4        1   […]

The median of a set of data is the middle value after the data set has been ranked either in increasing or decreasing order. The symbol used for the median is . We pronounce  as “x-tilde.” Since the median is the middle value, it divides a ranked data set into two equal parts. There are two […]