Question

Find the value of mode if the mean and median are 25 and 20 respectively.

(a) 12

(b) 18

(c) 10

(d) 17.5

The question was asked by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

This interesting question is from Statistics topic in portion Statistics of Mathematics – Class 10

Answer 1

The correct answer is (c) 10

For explanation: The empirical mean median mode relation is given as

Mean – Mode = 3(Mean – Median)

Given Mean = 25 and Median = 20

25 – Mode = 3(25 – 20)

Mode = 10