Concept:
In statistics, the mode is the value that appears most frequently in a data set. A set can have one mode (unimodal), more than one mode (multimodal), or no mode if all values appear with the same frequency.
Step 1: Count the frequency of each distinct number.
Let's tally the occurrences in the set [8, 11, 9, 8, 11, 9, 7, 8, 7, 3, 2, 8]:
• 8: Appears 4 times
• 11: Appears 2 times
• 9: Appears 2 times
• 7: Appears 2 times
• 3: Appears 1 time
• 2: Appears 1 time
Step 2: Identify the value with the highest frequency.
The number 8 occurs 4 times, which is more frequent than any other number in the set. Therefore, the mode is 8.