The mode in mathematics is the number that appears most frequently in a set of numbers. It is a measure of central tendency, like the mean and the median. A data set can have one mode, more than one mode (known as multimodal), or no mode if each number appears an equal number of times. For example, in the set of numbers 3, 3, 6, 9, 16, 16, 16, 27, 27, 37, 48, the mode is 16, as it appears more often than any other number
. The mode is useful when there are a lot of repeated values in a dataset
. To find the mode, you arrange the numbers in the set from least to greatest or greatest to least and then count how many times each number appears. The number that appears the most is the mode
