Question

For how many hours did the maximum number of students watch TV?

A. $ 7-8 $
B. $ 8-9 $
C. $ 4-5 $
D. $ 9-10 $

Answer 1

Hint: The given question is based on the histogram. We have to first read the data from the histogram to draw the meaningful conclusion of how many hours did the maximum number of students watch the television. The type of problem where we have to find the maximum number of a particular scenario happening in statistics is when we have to find the mode of the given dataset. We therefore have to find the mode of this dataset.

Complete step-by-step answer:
The given question asks us to find the maximum number of students who watched the TV in which time interval after giving a dataset. The question needs us to find the mode. The mode will be the no. of hours which have the highest frequency in the given dataset. As we can see from the image that the hours $ 4-5 $ is the time duration which has the maximum number of students which are $ 32 $ students. Hence this is the mode of the dataset and therefore can be said to be the hours for which the maximum number of students watch TV since the option C. indicates this scenario the option C. is the correct answer.
So, the correct answer is “Option C”.

Note: The mode of a dataset is the interval or the event that occurs the maximum number of times in a given scenario, in the above case a uniform interval was given, in case simple numbers distribution was given say, $ 2,4,8,5,8,4,8,2,4,6,4,2,5,2,5,2,3,2,2,5 $
The mode of this data set would have been $ 2 $ as it occurs the maximum number of times. The same was the case we did with the distribution given above.