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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by heavy metals. our

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band plutonium would be a great guitarist but it just wasn't in its [band plays on a stage]

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element .and here's our question. what's the mode of this distribution? and Eric

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[mumbling ] all we really need to know

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is exactly what a mode is. it's pretty simple. really amote as a measure of

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central tendency kind of them like one of those cool indie bands that we always

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pretend to know about. all right well for the sake of keeping modes interesting

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let's follow our newly established heavy metal band central tendency. now measures

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of central tendency also include mean and median and all three of them

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represent the most difficult scores in a data set. some heavy stuff. now mean it's [the number 3 sings into a mic]

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just another word for average. to find the mean you add small of the values

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together then divide by the number of values in the set. look we're starting to

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get why they're heavy metal since how else will be audience? alright well in

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this case adding all the numbers up gives us 389 .and since there's 10

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numbers total we divide by 10 which gives us 38.9. that happens to be C but

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since we're looking for the mode not the mean we can get rid of this one. medium

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meanwhile is the middle number of a set of numbers when you place them in

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numerical order. if we had an odd number of numbers it would be simply the middle

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number. if we have an even number of numbers and like here you'll find the

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meaning of the two median numbers to get the true median. thankfully for us our

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two median numbers on the same 36 plus 36 divided by 2.in California is 36. which [set of numbers listed]

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happens to be answered be that means we can rule it out right? well since our

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geeky but lovable metal band doesn't want us to eliminate b just yet we'll

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keep it into running. looks like it's time for our main act. mode just found

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quite easily it's the most commonly occurring number within a

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data. so if we take another look at our numbers we can see quite clearly that

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well what do you know 36 is the only number that appears twice. not only are

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our mode and median the same but our band was right b 36 is the answer we [numbers 36 and 36 highlighted]

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were looking for. our man.

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