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QuizMultiple Choice

Business Summary Statistics

Question 3 • FowU - Financial Math - B

What are the mean and mode of the following data set?59165746582136412364206640512846

Answer
A
mean: 43.5, mode: 46
B
mean: 42, mode: 46
C
mean: 43.5, mode: 42
D
mean: 46, mode: 42

Explanation

Read the data as 16 two-digit values: 59, 16, 57, 46, 58, 21, 36, 41, 23, 64, 20, 66, 40, 51, 28, and 46. Their sum is 672, so the mean is 672 ÷ 16 = 42. The value 46 appears twice, while every other value appears once, so the mode is 46. The correct choice is B: mean 42, mode 46.

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