Question

Yasmine works as a server in a restaurant and earns different amounts in tips each night. Her earnings in tips over the course of 8 nights of work are shown in the following dataset. Find the mode of the dataset and explain whether the mode is descriptive of the dataset.

{$10.45,$10.45,$35.80,$38.10,$40.90,$45.90,$79.60,$96.78}
(1 point)
Responses

The mode of the dataset is $10.45. The mode is descriptive of the dataset because it is the most common value.
The mode of the dataset is $10.45. The mode is descriptive of the dataset because it is the most common value.

The mode of the dataset is $10.45. The mode is not descriptive of the dataset because it does not describe the center of the data.
The mode of the dataset is $10.45. The mode is not descriptive of the dataset because it does not describe the center of the data.

The mode of the dataset is $39.50. The mode is descriptive of the dataset because it is in the center of the dataset.
The mode of the dataset is $39.50. The mode is descriptive of the dataset because it is in the center of the dataset.

The mode of the dataset is $86.33. The mode is not descriptive of the dataset because it does not describe the center of the data.

Answer 1

The mode is $10.45 (it occurs twice, all other values occur once). This mode is not descriptive of the dataset because it is far below the center — the median is $39.50 and the mean ≈ $44.75 — so the mode does not represent the typical tip amount.