NCERT Exemplar Solutions
Class 7 - Mathematics - Unit 3: Data Handling - Problems and Solutions
Question 53

Question. 53

A car seller collects the following data of cars sold in his shop:

Colour of CarNumber of Cars Sold
Red15
Black20
White17
Silver12
Others9

(a) Which colour of the car is most liked?
(b) Which measure of central tendency was used in (a)?

Answer:

(a) Black
(b) Mode

Detailed Answer with Explanation:

(a) Black cars sold the most (20).
(b) Mode is the most frequent observation, hence used here.

NCERT Exemplar Solutions Class 7 – Mathematics – Unit 3: Data Handling – Problems and Solutions | Detailed Answers