Following are the numbers of blossoms on 50 cacti in a deser

Following are the numbers of blossoms on 50 cacti in a desert botanical garden:

1, 0, 3, 0, 4, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 0, 1, 1, 5, 0, 2, 0, 3, 1, 1, 0, 4, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 0, 1, 5, 3, 0, 0, 1, and 0.

Find the mode.

Solution

Ordering the data for easier counting,

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
4
5
5
6

Here, we see that the mode, the most frequent outcome, is

Mode = 0 [ANSWER]

which occurred 21 times.