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

1 answer

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.