A farm equipment manufacturer has already spent $3 million in research and development to design a new model of tractor. To produce the tractors, the company will have to contract to rent a factory for a year at a cost of $20 million, and will then spend an additional $10,000 per tractor in materials and wages.

In 2000, for a certain region, 27.1% of incoming college freshman characterized their political views as liberal, 23.1% as moderate, and 49.8% as conservative. for this year, a random sample of 400 incoming college freshman yielded the frequency distribution for political views shown below. a. determine the mode of the data. b. decide whether it would be appropriate to use either the mean or the median as a measure of center. explain your answer. political view frequency liberal 118 moderate 98 conservative 184 a. choose the correct answer below. select all that apply. a. the mode is moderate. b. the mode is liberal. c. the mode is conservative. d. there is no mode.