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 the most popular number of guests brought by the graduating seniors. Which of the following will you compute?
A) Arithmetic mean
B) Median
C) Interquartile range
D) Mode

Question

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To determine the most popular number of guests brought by graduating seniors, we need to compute the mode, which is the value that appears most frequently in the data set. The mode will give us the number of guests that a majority of graduating seniors invited to the luncheon.

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