Question

Aziz wonder how many pieces of pizza people tend to eat at a pizza party. He surveys 11 people at the end of a pizza party and asks them how many pieces they ate. A list of his results follows. Find and interpret the mode of his data.
Number of pieces of pizza eaten: 6, 2, 1, 2, 4, 5, 2, 2, 4, 6, 7. A or B?

A. The mode for number of pieces of pizza eaten is 2. This means that the majority of people ate 2 pieces of pizza.

B. The mode for number of pieces of pizza eaten is 2. This means more people ate 2 pieces of pizza than any other number of pieces of pizza.

Answer 1

B.

The mode is 2 (it occurs 4 times). B is correct because the mode means the value that occurs most often. A is wrong because "majority" implies more than half (≥6 out of 11), which is not the case here.