In a short quiz, 3 pupils scored 1 mark, 5 pupils scored 2 marks and 4 pupils scored 3 marks. A pupil reading this frequency table says the modal score is 5. What is the modal score?

Explanation

The largest group holds 5 pupils, and every pupil in it scored 2 marks, so the score achieved most often is 2. The figure 5 is the size of that group rather than the score it belongs to, and a modal score has to be a score that pupils actually earned.