Question

If you analyze the flavors of ice cream sold and state that there is more chocolate than any other​ flavor, what descriptive statistic are you​ using?

A.

median

B.

standard deviation

C.

mean

D.

mode

Answer 1

Here we analyze the flavors of ice cream sold and state that there is more chocolate than any other​ flavor.

Median:-

The median of a data set describes which value is in the middle most value of the data set if the set is ordered from greatest to least or from least to greatest. If there are an even number of values, the median is the average of the two middle values.

Standard deviation:-

Standard deviation is considered to be a powerful tool to measure the dispersion of the data set. To find the standard deviation value we use the formula,

Mean:-

The mean of a frequency distribution describes the average. To find the mean value we use the formula, where, is class mark of class and is frequency of this class.

Mode:-

We know that mode is that value of a frequency distribution which occurs more frequently i.e. modal value has a highest frequency.

From the above description we can say that here we use MODE.

[ Note:-

i) Here we find there is more chocolate flavor than any other​ flavor. i.e. chocolate flavor has highest frequency. So chocolate flavor is the mode of the data set.

ii) Here the variable of the data set ice cream flavor is a categorical variable. And we know that for categorical variable mode is best measure of descriptive statistics. And we know that for categorical variable we can not determine the mean and median, so here we can not use mean and median. And standard deviation is a measure of dispersion, so here we can not use standard deviation ]

Answer:- Correct answer is " Option D. (mode) "