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The number of members in 50 households of a village are listed below.


Make a frequency table and answer these questions:


Households of what size occurs the most?

To find: Size of household that occurs most.

We will start by searching for the greatest number in the right column of the table above.


So, the greatest number is 11.


Note the number adjacent to the frequency 11 from the first column.


That is, 3.


⇒ The size of the household that occurs most is 3. (Among all 50-household having different count of members, 3 members exist in most of the household)


Thus, answer is 3.


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