Question

Following is the favorite cartoon character of 15 children.
Doraemon, Jerry, Mickey mouse, Jerry, Tom, Doraemon, Doraemon, Mickey mouse, Mickey mouse, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Doraemon, Doraemon, Doraemon.
Which cartoon character is liked least by children?

Answer 1

Hint: To find the least liked character, we will list all the characters and find out the frequency of each liked character. The character which is liked by the least number of children that is one which has least frequency will be the least liked character.

Complete step-by-step answer:
There are 4 favorite cartoon characters among 15 children. They are Doraemon, Tom, Jerry and Mickey mouse. Each character is a favorite of at least one of the 15 children.
To find out the least liked cartoon character we will form a table, with the frequency of a character being liked.
Thus, the table formed is as follows.

Cartoon Character	Frequency of being liked
Doraemon	6
Tom	1
Jerry	5
Mickey mouse	3

Thus, on observing the table, we can easily see that the cartoon character “Tom” is liked by the least number of children and thus is the least liked character. Also cartoon character “Doaremon” is liked by most number of children and is the thus the most liked character among the 4 cartoon character

Note: To, find the frequency of each cartoon character liked, we have to manually count the number of times a name of a character is repeated. Also, the given data is an example of nominal series, where the data is non-numerical thus, we cannot find the mean and median of this data, however we can find mode, as mode is the value which is repeated most often.