Question

What is the difference between the median number of electoral votes per state and the modal number (mode) of electoral votes?
State Number of Electoral Votes
California 55
Florida 27
Illinois 21
Kentucky 8
Missouri 11
Nevada 5
North Carolina 15
Texas 34
Utah 5

Answer 1

@oldrin.bataku

Answer 2

Do you know the median number of votes per state? Order them in descending or ascending order and find the middle number:$$5,5,8,11,\color{red}{15},21,27,34,55$$To find our mode, look for the number that occurs most often:$$\color{blue}{5,5},8,11,15,21,27,34,55$$So we've found our median is 15 and our mode is 5. Can you compute their difference?

Answer 3

thanys the part i cant figure out .... i think it is 10 but nin had me come to u ?

Answer 4

@msumner yep, \(15-5=10\)!

Answer 5

thanks :)