Question

A charity only accepts donations in increments of $5. They have asked a volunteer to determine the donation amount that is most likely to be received. Which measure should be used to answer their question? a) mode b) z-score c) mean d) median

I think the answer should be A because thats is the repetitive number hence when predicting the amount it will again be $5 because thats the only amount they accept. Please confirm.

Answer 1

The "mean" is the "average" you're used to, where you add up all the numbers and then divide by the number of numbers. The "median" is the "middle" value in the list of numbers. To find the median, your numbers have to be listed in numerical order from smallest to largest, so you may have to rewrite your list before you can find the median. The "mode" is the value that occurs most often. If no number in the list is repeated, then there is no mode for the list.

Here it is asked to determine the donation amount that is most likely to be received, as per above definitions answer here is Mode as it is the value which is most likely to be received.

So answer here is a)mode