Question

a) Determine the mode of the data.
b) Decide whether it would be appropriate to use either the mean or median as a measure of center. Explain your answer .

Road Rage. The report Controlling Road Rage: A Literature Review and Pilot Study was prepared for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety by D. Rathbone and J. Huckabee. The authors dis cussed the results of a literature review and pilot study on how to prevent aggressive driving and road rape. As described in the study druge is criminal behavior by motorists characterized by uncontrolled anger that results in violence or threatened violence on the road. One of the goals of the study was to determine when road mare occurs most often. The days on which 69 road rage incidents occurred are presented in the following table.

Short answer

a) F.

b) The given data is inappropriate to use either the mean or the median as the measure of the center because the data is quantitative.

Reason: The data is quantitative, neither the mean nor the median are adequate measures of the centre.

Step-by-step solution

Step 1. Given information. 

We have given data for road rage incidents.

Step 2. To find mode. 

The greatest frequency is the mode of the data set.

Thus, the mode of the data set is F.

Step 3. Decide either the mean or median as a measure of center. 

The given data is inappropriate to use either the mean or the median as the measure of the center because the data is quantitative.

Because the data is quantitative, it is improper to use either the mean or the median as a measure of the centre.