Every spring semester, the School of Business coordinates with local business leaders a luncheon for graduating seniors, their families, and friends. Corporate sponsorship pays for the lunches of each of the seniors, but students have to purchase tickets to cover the cost of lunches served to guests they bring with them. Data on the number of guests each graduating senior invited to the luncheon and the number of graduating seniors in each category were collected. You want to know what the most popular number of guests brought by the graduating seniors is. Which of the following will you compute?
A) median
B) mode
C) Interquartile Range
D) arithmetic mean

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

To determine the most popular number of guests brought by the graduating seniors, we need to find the value that occurs most frequently in the data. This is the definition of the mode. Therefore, we would compute the mode to answer this question. The other measures listed may provide useful information, but they are not directly relevant to identifying the most common number of guests.

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