Suppose a study of houses that have sold recently in your community showed the following frequency distribution for the number of bedrooms: Based on this information,the mode for the data is 140.

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Suppose a study of houses that have sold recently in your community showed the following frequency distribution for the number of bedrooms:  Based on this information,the mode for the data is 140.

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The mode is the value that appears most frequently in a data set. Looking at the given frequency distribution, we can see that the highest frequency is for houses with 3 bedrooms (represented by the class interval 130-139), which appears 9 times. Therefore, the mode for this data set is 3, not 140.

Suppose a Study of Houses That Have Sold Recently in Your