Question

A city planner measured 10 streets in Oxford and recorded the following widths:
42 feet 47 feet 47 feet 47 feet 54 feet 42 feet 47 feet 59 feet 47 feet 47 feet
What was the mode of the streets' widths?

feet

Answer 1

To find the mode of the given street widths, we need to identify the width that appears most frequently in the list.

The recorded widths are:
- 42 feet
- 47 feet
- 47 feet
- 47 feet
- 54 feet
- 42 feet
- 47 feet
- 59 feet
- 47 feet
- 47 feet

Now, let's count the frequency of each width:

- 42 feet appears 2 times
- 47 feet appears 5 times
- 54 feet appears 1 time
- 59 feet appears 1 time

The mode is the width that appears most frequently, which in this case is **47 feet**, as it appears 5 times.

Thus, the mode of the streets' widths is **47 feet**.