IXL | Find the mean, median, or mode from a line plot

The shop teacher wrote down how many picture frames the students made last week.

Making picture frames

Picture frames made

What is the median of the numbers?

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For Earth Day, the environmental club tracked the number of seeds planted by its members.

Planting seeds in the garden

Seeds planted

What is the mode of the numbers?

The mode is the number that appears most often.

Read the numbers from the line plot. Each X represents one number.

First, arrange the numbers from least to greatest:

Now count how many times each number appears.

0 appears 5 times.
2 appears 6 times.
4 appears 2 times.
5 appears 2 times.

The number that appears most often is 2.

The mode is 2.

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