B. mode, 1
The mode is the value that appears most frequently in a dataset. In this case, the mode is 1 because it appears 9 times, which is more than any other value in the dataset.
The following dataset represents the responses from a survey of students sharing how many languages they are fluent in.
{1,2,2,2,1,1,1,3,2,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,2,2,4}
What is the best way to summarize this dataset, and what is the corresponding summary value?
A. mean, 1.6
B. mode, 1
C. median, 1
D. median, 1.5
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