Mode calculator
The mode is the value that appears most often in a set. The calculator finds it along with how many times it occurs, and copes with several modes at once.
The most frequent value is 12, 18, 24, appearing 1 times.
Formula
n(xᵢ) is how many times a value occurs. The mode is the value for which that count is highest.
How we got there
A set can have more than one mode. If every value appears once, there is no mode at all.
How to find the mode by hand
- Count how many times each value occurs
It helps to write it as a list: 4 — twice, 5 — once, 3 — once.
- Find the highest count
Two in this example. That is how often the most frequent value appears.
- List every value with that count
If several values share the highest count, they are all modes and the set is multimodal.
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Frequently asked questions
Count how many times each value appears and pick the most frequent. In the set 4, 4, 5, 3 the mode is 4.
Yes. If two values tie for the highest count, both are modes.
Then there is no mode — the calculator says so explicitly rather than reporting an arbitrary number.
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