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Chapter 2: Q. 48 (page 134)

Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: Sixty-five randomly selected car salespersons were asked the number of cars they generally sell in one week. Fourteen people answered that they generally sell three cars; nineteen generally sell four cars; twelve generally sell five cars; nine generally sell six cars; eleven generally sell seven cars. Calculate the following:

mode = _______

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Mode=4

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01

Given information

From sixty-five car salespersons, fourteen people answered that they generally sell three cars; nineteen generally sell four cars; twelve generally sell five cars; nine generally sell six cars; eleven generally sell seven cars in one week.

02

Explanation

According to the given information, the data is

33333333333333444444444444444444455555555555566666666677777777777

The total number of observations is 65. Hence the mode is the car sell occurs the highest number of times that is sold has the highest frequency. Here we get the highest frequency of 4which occurs 19times.

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