Mode Examples Page 1

The students' test scores are

77, 80, 77, 64, 50, 84, 90, 77.

What is the mode of the test scores?

Let's order the scores to make them easier to look at:

50, 64, 77, 77, 77, 80, 84, 90.

The most frequently occurring number in this list is 77, so 77 is the mode of the test scores. Getting a 77 must have been fashionable that day (although at Shmoop we think getting 100 is more fashionable, but that's just us).